setting environment variable in pycharm?

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I am trying to learn flask and for the same created a small program. When I try to run it I am getting the below error. flask run Error-

* Environment: production
   WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
   Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Debug mode: off
Usage: flask run [OPTIONS]

Error: Could not locate a Flask application. You did not provide the "FLASK_APP" environment variable, and a "wsgi.py" or "app.py" module was not found in the current directory.

if I try to change the file name to app.py it runs smooth but when the file name is flaskblog.py it isn't working.

I tried setting up the environment variables as suggested in the blog-> How to set environment variables in PyCharm? but nothing worked.

Screenshots attached. content of environment variable file

To add, if I run the code with print(os.environ['FLASK_APP']) this gives me correct output but the same doesn't work on the terminal — Arpit Rathod
– Arpit Rathod, Commented May 1, 2020 at 18:43

psota · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-25 18:23:04Z

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Open Settings -> Tools -> Terminal and there set up the environment variable FLASK_APP=app.py. Next, perform restart of PyCharm.

answered Apr 25, 2021 at 18:23

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Arpit Rathod · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-01 19:00:26Z

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I was able to resolve this by setting up the environment variable on the terminal itself. set FLASK_APP=flaskblog.py

and then it ran like smoothly.

answered May 1, 2020 at 19:00

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