Flask can't find app file

Question

In Step 2 of the official Flask tutorial, Flask cannot find my app file because it's looking in ../venv/Scripts/ instead of where I run the command. How can I tell Flask to look in the right place?

(venv) C:\Users\TomV\Codes\flaskr_tutorial>flask run
 * Serving Flask app "flaskr"
 * Forcing debug mode on
 * Restarting with stat
c:\users\tomv\codes\flaskr_tutorial\venv\scripts\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\Users\TomV\Codes\flaskr_tutorial\venv\Scripts\flask': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Github issue with a workaround: https://github.com/pallets/flask/issues/1829 — Anders E. Andersen, Jun 07 '16 at 19:43
@AndersE.Andersen Thank you. If you post the workaround here, I'll accept it as answer. — bongbang, Jun 08 '16 at 03:49

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '16 at 16:24

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There seems to a bug according to this github issue:

https://github.com/pallets/flask/issues/1829

As a workaround you can do

>python -m flask run

You can also use >python -m flask initdb later in the tutorial, when initializing the database (step 4).

answered Jun 08 '16 at 16:24

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 15 '19 at 15:22

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You can give full path to app.py when you run "python app.py"

python C:/path/to/file/app.py

edited Aug 15 '19 at 15:22

ivcubr

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answered Aug 15 '19 at 11:16

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This worked! But why? I am on OSX – iamyojimbo Jul 18 '22 at 22:14

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