Dissecting the view

The views's URL is http://{localhost}/arenas. Using a special Python object called a decorator (such as @app.route) allows us to connect the URL that we want to use with the function that will accept and handle the request processing. The function and the URL do not need to have the same name, though it is common for them to do so:

@app.route('/arenas', methods=["GET","POST"])def arenas():

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