# HELP ME WITH MY PROBLEM WITH PYTHON AND DJANGO

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-me-with-my-problem-with-python-and-django/82570>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** free\
**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-me-with-my-problem-with-python-and-django/82570 "2023-06-02T16:39:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevinsito](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/kevinsito/32/198813_2.png) [@kevinsito](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kevinsito)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-me-with-my-problem-with-python-and-django/82570/1 "2023-06-02T16:39:40Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m having trouble connecting to the HubSpot API using the following code:

Views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

from .forms import ContactForm

from .hubspot import create\_or\_update\_hubspot\_contact

def contact\_view(request​😞

```
message = ""

if request.method == "POST":

    form = ContactForm(request.POST)

    if form.is\_valid():

        email = form.cleaned\_data\["email"]

        firstname = form.cleaned\_data\["firstname"]

        api\_key = "pat-na1-51aea591-2569-4d97-b922-4ccbca04ed26" # Reemplaza esto con tu clave API de Hubspot

        success = create\_or\_update\_hubspot\_contact(api\_key, email, firstname)

        if success:

            message = f"Contact {email} created or updated successfully"

        else:

            message = f"An error occurred while creating or updating contact {email}"

else:

    form = ContactForm()

return render(request, "contact.html", {"form": form, "message": message})

```

**hubspot.py**

import requests

import json

def create\_or\_update\_hubspot\_contact(api\_key, email, firstname​😞

```
url = f"https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/contact/createOrUpdate/email/{email}/?hapikey={api\_key}"

headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

data = {

    "properties": \[

        {

            "property": "email",

            "value": email

        },

        {

            "property": "firstname",

            "value": firstname

        }

    ]

}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))

if response.status\_code == 200:

    return True

else:

    print(f"An error occurred: {response.text}")

    return False

```

When I run the code, I get the following error message: “An error occurred while creating or updating contact [email]”. I’ve tried generating new private API keys in my HubSpot account but I keep getting the same error.

Can anyone help me figure out what’s going wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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**Author:** ![Jaycee\_Lewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jaycee_lewis/32/61352_2.png) [@Jaycee\_Lewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Jaycee_Lewis)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-me-with-my-problem-with-python-and-django/82570/2 "2023-06-03T04:21:22Z")

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Hi, @kevinsito 👋 Thanks for your question. I don’t have the answer, but I have sone questions that may help our community to better understand your issue.

- You’re printing the response text when there’s an error. What’s the exact error message you’re getting?
- The status code for a successful operation would be `200` or `204`. You’re only checking for `200` which might be the issue. Can you try to print the status code to see if you’re getting `204`?

Thank you for the additional information.

Best,

Jaycee