Flask cli can't import application set with FLASK_APP

Question

Following the Flask 0.11 documentation, I cloned the Flask repo, created a virtualenv, and installed Flask via pip install flask. I went into the example

Answer 1

I was setting FLASK_APP=flaskr. Since I hadn't installed my app as a package in my virtualenv, I needed to add the .py extension.

export FLASK_APP=flaskr.py