Flask Shell Commands not working

Question

I\'m new to python and flask and currently working on the Flask Mega-Tutorial, however: I\'m stuck getting flask shell to recognize my custom symbols/commands.

Answer 1

Thanks a lot to Miguel, the writer of the FLASK Mega Tutorial (go check that out) wo solved my problem!

As he pointed out in a comment below my question: you cannot have a module and a package with the same name. So no application folder and application.py at the same time.

Solution:

I changed my 'application.py into 'theapp.py' and now flask shell works like a charm! I did not need to change anything in my files, apart from running export FLASK_APP=theapp.py in the terminal.