Flask can't find app file

Question

In Step 2 of the official Flask tutorial, Flask cannot find my app file because it\'s looking in ../venv/Scripts/ instead of where I run the command. How can I

Answer 1

You can give full path to app.py when you run "python app.py"

python C:/path/to/file/app.py

Answer 2

There seems to a bug according to this github issue:

https://github.com/pallets/flask/issues/1829

As a workaround you can do

>python -m flask run

You can also use >python -m flask initdb later in the tutorial, when initializing the database (step 4).