Flask confusion with app

Question

I am starting a flask project, and in my code I have

from flask import Flask, render_template, abort
app = Flask(__name__)

Now

Answer 1

I think the main confusion is in the line:

from app import app

You have a python package (a folder with __init__.py file) named "app". From this folder, you are now importing the variable "app" that you defined below in __init__.py file:

app = Flask(__name__)

Rename the folder from app to say "myproject". Then you will call

from myproject import app

Also, you will import views as

from myproject import views