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Manthan Ankolekar
Manthan Ankolekar

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Set-up Flask & Print Hello World!

#flask #python #helloworld

Virtual environments

Create an environment : 

//In Windows
> mkdir myproject
> cd myproject
> py -3 -m venv venv
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Activate the environment : 

> venv\Scripts\activate
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Install Flask : 

pip install Flask
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Hello World! in Flask : 

//save as hello.py
from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def hello_world():
    return "<p>Hello, World!</p>"
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Run the application: 

flask --app hello run
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