Flask - ImportError: No module named app

Question

First I created __init__.py

from flask import Flask  app = Flask(__name__) 

Then in a separate file, in the same directory, run.py

from app import app   app.run(     debug = True ) 

When I try to run run.py, I get the error

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "run.py", line 1, in <module>     from app import app  ImportError: No module named app 

Answer 1

__init__.py is imported using a directory. if you want to import it as app you should put __init__.py file in directory named app

a better option is just to rename __init__.py to app.py