flask.Config.from_object¶

Config.from_object(obj)[source]¶

Updates the values from the given object. An object can be of one of the following two types:

• a string: in this case the object with that name will be imported
• an actual object reference: that object is used directly

Objects are usually either modules or classes.

Just the uppercase variables in that object are stored in the config. Example usage:

app.config.from_object('yourapplication.default_config')
from yourapplication import default_config
app.config.from_object(default_config)

You should not use this function to load the actual configuration but rather configuration defaults. The actual config should be loaded with from_pyfile() and ideally from a location not within the package because the package might be installed system wide.

Parameters:	obj – an import name or object