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Move docs explaining instantiating Flask

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Alex Couper 12 years ago
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So what did that code do?
1. First we imported the :class:`~flask.Flask` class. An instance of this
class will be our WSGI application. The first argument is the name of
the application's module. If you are using a single module (as in this
example), you should use `__name__` because depending on if it's started as
application or imported as module the name will be different (``'__main__'``
versus the actual import name). For more information, have a look at the
:class:`~flask.Flask` documentation.
2. Next we create an instance of this class. We pass it the name of the module
or package. This is needed so that Flask knows where to look for templates,
static files, and so on.
class will be our WSGI application.
2. Next we create an instance of this class. The first argument is the name of
the application's module or package. If you are using a single module (as
in this example), you should use `__name__` because depending on if it's
started as application or imported as module the name will be different
(``'__main__'`` versus the actual import name). For more information, have
a look at the :class:`~flask.Flask` documentation. This is needed so that
Flask knows where to look for templates, static files, and so on.
3. We then use the :meth:`~flask.Flask.route` decorator to tell Flask what URL
should trigger our function.
4. The function is given a name which is also used to generate URLs for that

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