from flask import Flask, render_template, request app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def index(): if request.method == "POST": # getting input with name = fname in HTML form instring = request.form.get("instring") outstring = instring.replace(" ", "-") return outstring return render_template("index.html") if __name__ == '__main__': app.run()