Flask handling a PDF as its own page

Question

For my personal website, I want to have a separate page just for my résumé, which is a PDF. I\'ve tried multiple ways, but I can\'t figure out how to get flask to handle a P

Answer 1

I know it's quite late, but I just found the easiest way and it's not among those.

Just redirect to the file's path as a static file, with any hyperlink:

"/docs/sample.pdf" #the browser will take care about showing it

Or, if you want a maybe cleaner way... I just made a flask page for the pdfs like this:

@app.route('/pdf/') #the url you'll send the user to when he wants the pdf
def pdfviewer():
    return redirect("/docs/sample.pdf") #the pdf itself

...which I guess is kinda like giving a variable name to the pdf link (?), and also should be easier to adapt if I need to send the user to different pdfs depending on a variable.

I'm thinking something in this lines:

@app.route('/pdf') #passing variable through the url
def pdfviewer(number):
    if number == 1: #pdf depending on that variable
        return redirect("/docs/sample1.pdf")
    elif number == 2:
        return redirect("/docs/sample1.pdf")
    ...
    else:
        return "Hey I don't have such pdf" #basic html page as default

BTW: I'm working on pythonAnywhere, so I had to first define the path to the static files in the Web tab, so I could show static files to the user.