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Comment by adnam | Hacker News Reader

It was just an example.

An example that beginners would be likely to be inspired by. It wouldn't have been much harder to write a single line of

render_template('something.html')

and then write the HTML for the template in a separate code section.

You wouldn't even need to have a separate section — you could get the point across well enough with a simple

  render_template('error.html')

An example should demonstrate what it is meant do demonstrate, nothing more.

Anything else is a distraction.

Using render_template would have left us wondering whether there was anything relevant to the task in render_template, or at best interrupting the reader's flow.

it's worse even more then. An example should show a GOOD practice.

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