redirect() — flask Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the redirect() function in helpers.py from the flask codebase.

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Source Code

src/flask/helpers.py lines 241–265

def redirect(
    location: str, code: int = 303, Response: type[BaseResponse] | None = None
) -> BaseResponse:
    """Create a redirect response object.

    If :data:`~flask.current_app` is available, it will use its
    :meth:`~flask.Flask.redirect` method, otherwise it will use
    :func:`werkzeug.utils.redirect`.

    :param location: The URL to redirect to.
    :param code: The status code for the redirect.
    :param Response: The response class to use. Not used when
        ``current_app`` is active, which uses ``app.response_class``.

    .. versionchanged:: 3.2
        ``code`` defaults to ``303`` instead of ``302``.

    .. versionadded:: 2.2
        Calls ``current_app.redirect`` if available instead of always
        using Werkzeug's default ``redirect``.
    """
    if (ctx := _cv_app.get(None)) is not None:
        return ctx.app.redirect(location, code=code)

    return _wz_redirect(location, code=code, Response=Response)