The web server works (python flask) but when I go to the website, where the value of animal should be (dog) it shows the variable name animal. (There is more to the code but this is the most simplistic version which is the same concept.

Let's say I have these lines of code in my python script running python flask.

animal = dog
return render_template('index.html', value=animal)

and in my HTML

<h3>I like the animal: {{ value }}<h3>

but rather than displaying 'dog' it displays the variable name 'animal'. So how would I go about displaying the Python variable to HTML? Thank you

Shouldn't it be animal = 'dog'? If 'dog' is the value you want to see printed after "I like the animal:", this is what you need to do:

animal = 'dog'
return render_template('index.html', value=animal)