Else statement is not working. Getting error: TypeError: markdown() missing 1 required positional argument: 'text'

Django code is to create an Entry Page where Visiting /wiki/title, where TITLE is the title of an encyclopedia entry, should render a page that displays the contents of that encyclopedia entry. The view should get the content of the encyclopedia entry by calling the appropriate util function. If an entry is requested that does not exist, the user should be presented with an error page indicating that their requested page was not found.

But if statement is working fine, but else statement is not working. When I am browsing http://127.0.0.1:8000/wiki/CSS, it should navigate me to that dedicated page. But I am getting an error: markdown() missing 1 required positional argument: 'text'. Please advise how to mitigate this error?

views.py

from markdown import markdown  from django.shortcuts import render  from . import util    #EntryPage using title  def entry(request, entry):      #markdowner = markdown()      entryPage = util.get_entry(entry)      #Displays the requested entry page, if it exists      if entryPage is None:           return render(request, "encyclopedia/nonExistingEntry.html", {               "entryTitle": entry           })          # Title exists, convert md to HTML and return rendered template      else:          return render(request, "encyclopedia/entry.html", {              "entry": markdown().convert(entryPage),              "entryTitle": entry                                               })  

urls.py

from django.urls import path  from . import views    urlpatterns = [      path("", views.index, name="index"),      path("wiki/<str:entry>", views.entry, name="entry")  ]  

util.py

def get_entry(title):  """  Retrieves an encyclopedia entry by its title. If no such  entry exists, the function returns None.  """  try:      f = default_storage.open(f"entries/{title}.md")      return f.read().decode("utf-8")  except FileNotFoundError:      return None  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66926759/else-statement-is-not-working-getting-error-typeerror-markdown-missing-1-re April 03, 2021 at 08:42AM