Flask-ShellPlus

Flask-ShellPlus is a Flask extension aimed to enhance your debugging with Flask apps. It’s heavily affected by Django-Extentions shell_plus module but focused on Flask and on the top of Flask-Script.

Flask-ShellPlus supports BPython, IPython, ptPython and ptiPython now, and also with Jupyter notebook on the way.

Installation

You could easily install it via pip:

pip install flask_shellplus

Quick start

This should be used with Flask-Script:

from flask_shellplus import Shell

def make_context():
    return dict(app=app, db=db, models=models)

manager.add_command('shell', Shell(make_context=make_context))

Then run this in your shell:

python manage.py shell

Flask-ShellPlus will find the first available one in BPython, ptiPython, IPython, ptPython, and Python.

Or you can manually define the preferred shell with flag --plain, --bpython, --ptipython, --ipython or --ptpython just like shell_plus in DjangoExtensions.

Note

If you want to use Flask ShellPlus with IPython, IPython 3.0 or newer is needed.

Configure

Flask ShellPlus also provide configures as Django-Extensions do. By now, SHELL_PLUS_PRE_IMPORTS and SHELL_PLUS_POST_IMPORTS is supported, and others in progress:

SHELL_PLUS_PRE_IMPORTS = (          # SHELL_PLUS_POST_IMPORTS is similar to this
    ('module.submodule1', ('class1', 'function2')),
    ('module.submodule2', 'function3'),
    ('module.submodule3', '*'),
    'module.submodule4'
)

You could define these arguments in your Flask application’s configure file, and they will be automate imported before and after make_context runs.