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Flask recipe doesn't work anymore

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
flask, python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start in pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/init.py and inspect how the recipe declares its Flask and Werkzeug dependencies. Reproduce the reported url_quote ImportError during a Flask recipe build, then verify that the selected dependency update allows the recipe to build and import Flask successfully.

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Werkzerug is upgraded to 3.X, so flask 2.0.3 will use werkzerug 3.X by default, which will raise the following error:
ImportError: cannot import name 'url_quote' from 'werkzeug.urls'
To solve the problem, flask recipe requirements should be updated like this:
pythonforandroid/recipes/flask/__init__.py
python_depends = ['jinja2', 'werkzeug==2.2.2', 'markupsafe', 'itsdangerous', 'click']
or flask recipe shoud be updated to 3.X.
More details:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77213053/why-did-flask-start-failing-with-importerror-cannot-import-name-url-quote-fr

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