Firstly, I'm following the Python Flask tutorial posted here: https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-crud-web-app-with-python-and-flask-part-one.
Everything was working smoothly up to the 'Migration' section where executing:
$ flask db init
... failed with the following error:
Usage: flask db init [OPTIONS]
Error: The file/path provided (run) does not appear to exist. Please verify the path is correct. If app is not on PYTHONPATH, ensure the extension is .py
I know the $FLASK_APP env variable is set because this command executes fine:
$ flask run
Can anyone suggest why this executes fine when running the app, but not when trying to create the migration repository?
The closest I can find elsewhere on the subject is here: Flask can't find app file, but pre-pending with python -m
isn't working in either case for me here.
In my case I had to do
python3 -m flask db init
Without mentioning python3 -m, it shows
zsh: command not found: flask