jsonify is not defined - Internal Server Error
flask, internal-server-error, json, python
Solution
`jsonify()` is a function contained within the `flask` module.
So you would need to import it. Change the beginning of your script to:
from flask import jsonify # <- `jsonify` instead of `json`
Problem
Playing around with Flask and just wanted to print out some data as JSON formatted, but I keep getting the error: NameError: global name 'jsonify' is not defined ``` from flask import Flask from flask import json app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def testJSON(): x = "Test1" y = "Test2" return jsonify(a=x,z=y) if __name__ == "__main__": app.debug = True app.run() ``` Their documentation says that I either need Python 2.6 or simplejson to be installed - I have both. Python 2.7.3: sys.version '2.7.3 (default, May 9 2012, 23:42:16) \n[GCC 4.4.3]' simplejson: root@Python:~/PythonScripts# pip install simplejson Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): simplejson in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages Cleaning up...