Flask: "from app import app"?

Question

I'm following this tutorial to make a basic Flask app: and I don't understand the line of code in app/view.py that says from app import app. In that line, what do both of the app refer to? Do they both refer to the same thing?

Note: I know that there is a folder called app, and that there is an object

app = Flask(__ name__) in __ init__.py 

if that helps...

Answer 1

It means:

from package app import object app

So the first appis the name of the package (which is a folder with a __init__.py file inside) and the second is the name of the imported object from that package. See the answers to this question for more info.