flask-slack-app-slash-command-Function executes if we click the button too

Question

Slash command is /actions whenever I post this n channel ,a message with button should be posted. This is working correctly. But if I click the button to open dialog or submit the dialog again message with button gets posted. And I am not calling the post function during this too. I am calling it under route /actions Code:

@app.route("/actions", methods=["POST"])
def actions():
    a = send_menu()
    #prefix = "payload="    
    data = request.get_data(a)

Should Execute: Only when /actions slash command is used Should Not: When a button from below function is clicked Question: How can I achieve to stop this?

Below function that executes unnecessarily

def send_menu():
    try:
        response1 = standup_menu_block()
        post_response = requests.post(webhook_url, json={
                'channel': SLACK_CHANNEL,
                'blocks': response1,
            }
        )
        return post_response

***This function will post a message and a button

Steps: 1./actions is input in channel 2.triggers send_menu() and post a message with a button 3.Now if I click that button again the message is posted and dialog is opened

Answer 1

It is doing what you are telling it to do. See this shell session:

>>> def x():
...     print('i was not meant to be printed')
...     return 1
...
>>> z = x()
i was not meant to be printed
>>> z
1
>>>

assigning x() to z caused the function body (here the print statement) to execute.

Same is happening with:

a = send_menu()

which is causing this block:

post_response = requests.post(webhook_url, json={
                'channel': SLACK_CHANNEL,
                'blocks': response1,
            }
        )

to get executed.