🔒 flask application context error

[shell pike]

I got an error message that sent me here https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/appcontext/

and I'm not sure where to put that

def create_app():
    app = Flask(__name__)

    with app.app_context():
        init_db()

    return app

code snippet that it sounds like I need to avoid this error

(that I still don't understand because reading the page just says "hey we do this so we don't get recursive issues" but I don't understand this kind of vague statement without an example to compare it to.)

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/3SRQ traceback here

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[wet lantern]

can you show the CO2 function, as well as where it's called from?

[shell pike]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/TDCA

tried to add error handling and that managed to break the functions (this is the first one in the file, oh goodie)

[wet lantern]

ok, what about where it's being called from? (File "/var/www/html/app.py", line 346, in <module>)

[shell pike]

the functions are at the bottom of the file

[wet lantern]

when you wrap something in app.route, Flask takes care of providing the app context to your route-handler function

but when you call it manually, that doesn't happen

[shell pike]

like the defining them then using them

[wet lantern]

can you share the entire file?

[wet lantern]

or, why are you calling the CO2 function manually anyway?

[shell pike]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/VLJQ

[shell pike]

sounds like I am doing this incorrectly. how am I supposed to be telling python to do them?

[wet lantern]

they're supposed to be called by Flask automatically when the corresponding HTTP route is hit

[shell pike]

so I don't need to have them at the bottom like that?

[wet lantern]

nope. in fact, you shouldn't.

[shell pike]

OK I"m going to change the code and try running it again

it works now

thank you so so much

[wet lantern]

no problem!

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