Flask: How to read a file in application root?

Question

My Flask application structure looks like

application_top/
         application/
                    static/
                          english_words.txt
                 


        

Answer 1

Here's a simple alternative to CppLearners answer:

from flask import current_app

with current_app.open_resource('static/english_words.txt') as f:
    f.read()

See the documentation here: Flask.open_resource