I cannot create tables using SQLAlchemy

Question

Following this tutorial of using SQLAlchemy and Postgresql, I based myself for creating a file structure of models, views, templates etc..

requirements.txt
run.py
website/
    __init__.py
    views/
    models/
          users.py
    static/
    templates/

As you can see, inside models I have users.py

from app import db

class Users(db.Model):

    __tablename__ = 'users'

    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    user = db.Column(db.String(), index=True, unique=True)
    password = db.Column(db.String(128))

    def __init__(self, user, password):
        self.user = user
        self.password= password


    def __repr__(self):
        return f"<User {self.user}>"

My init.py

from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_migrate import Migrate

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = "postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/project"
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
migrate = Migrate(app, db)


#Routes
@app.route("/")
def index():
    return render_template('index.html')

Now, I used these commands to create user table flask db init , flask db migrate , flask db upgrade . OK, after this, was created a table named public.alembic_version , but as you see, Users didnt.

My last tried, was insert this import from models import users between:

migrate = Migrate(app, db)

from models import users

    @app.route("/")
    def index():
        return render_template('index.html')

But the message is ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'models' I thought that I'm using a reserved word, even changing folder, page name, the error keeps, just change module name.

Update:

Final result, this example work to me

run.py

from website import app
from website.models.users import User

app.run(host="0.0.0.0",debug=True,port=5000)

Update

requirements.txt
run.py
website/
    __init__.py
    views/
    models.py
    static/
    templates/

What I changed is remove Models Folder e create a file models.py and adding the class Users, Purchase, anything that I want...

I took these imports and include in top of my models.py ...

from website import app
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_migrate import Migrate
import psycopg2
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = "postgres://postgres:password@ipaddress:5432/databasename"
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
migrate = Migrate(app, db)

In __init__.py added in end of line, after blueprints imports, if I wanted do it, from website.models import Users

from flask import Flask, render_template


app = Flask(__name__)

from website.models import Usuario

Answer 1

The only problem I can find is that you add an import statement ( from models import users ) in your last attached part of the code. However, you have not created an __init__.py inside your models folder, to declare it as a module. So, that you can import it later as a module like you have created an __init__.py file in your main directory ("website/"). But how you import the models.py file in your run.py file? In your run.py file you should import the models like from website.models.users import Users .

I have two working projects, where I also use FlaskSQLAlchemy & PostgreSQL , but I have set as the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgres://postgres:[password]@localhost:5432/[database_name]' . It works perfectly fine by putting postgres instead of postgresql for the engine configuration.

Reference: Flask-SQLAlchemy import/context issue

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UPDATE

Well, you have put your business login (routes, ...) in the init.py file. If you want it to run, I think you should probably put it in the run.py file. Leave the __init__.py files empty.

Furthermore, in your app.py file import your models like this: from.website.models import Users . This requires that you have three __init__.py files. One in your main directory where app.py is located, one in the website folder, and one in the models folder.

*I hope that helps. Please let me know if this works, and if there is anything else I can help you with.