Flask instances with static folders were creating a reference cycle
via their "static" view function (which held a strong reference back
to the Flask instance to call its `send_static_file` method). This
prevented CPython from freeing the memory for a Flask instance
when all external references to it were released.
Now use a weakref for the back reference to avoid this.
Co-authored-by: Joshua Bronson <jab@users.noreply.github.com>
When loading the app fails for the --help command, only the error
message is shown, then the help text. The full traceback is shown for
other exceptions. Also show the message when loading fails while
getting a command, instead of only "command not found". The error
message goes to stderr to match other error behavior, and is in red
with an extra newline to make it more obvious next to the help text.
Also fixes an issue with the test_apps fixture that caused an imported
app to still be importable after the test was over and the path was
reset. Now the module cache is reset as well.
* No longer causes AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no
attribute 'rstrip'.
* This was broken by e6178fe489
which was released in 1.1.2.
* Add a regression test that now passes.
See #3557.
TOML is a very popular format now, and is taking hold in the Python
ecosystem via pyproject.toml (among others). This allows toml config
files via,
app.config.from_file("config.toml", toml.loads)
it also allows for any other file format whereby there is a loader
that takes a string and returns a mapping.
- pytest 5.x drops python2 compatibility and therefore only implements PEP 451
- pytest 5.x made the repr of `ExcInfo` less confusing (fixed tests depending
on the old format)
`RequestContext.match_request` is moved from `__init__` to `push`. This
causes matching to happen later, when the app context is available.
This enables URL converters that use things such as the database.
