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

The author made his code needlessly confusing by choosing a package name that is the same as Flask's usual application object instance name. This is the one you'll be most interested in:

app = Flask(__name__)

Here is the documentation on the Flask application object:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/api/#application-object

To avoid confusion, I recommend using the official Flask documentation instead of that guide.