installed flask successfully, still getting import error

Question

I\'m working with flask and python for the first time trying to create a web app. I\'m on Windows 10 using Cygwin; for some reason, even though I\'ve successfully installed

Answer 1

You need to create a virtualenv and then install pip in that.

virtualenv flasktest

next,

cd flasktest

then,

source bin/activate

lastly,

pip install flask

You should be all good with running flask (only in the virtualenv, it will not work outside of it.)

Answer 2

Try this if you don't want to use virtualenv:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install flask