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Setting up flask app in heroku with a database

The below article will cover the intricacies of setting up databases and heroku in respect to a flask app. This is more like a memo and will have out of sequence instructions or solutions to errors so read thoroughly.

Setting up a database

You'll need the packages

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#!/Users/username/Documents/python/projectname/env/bin/python

# edit line 1 to match what YOU get when you are in YOUR virtualenv and type:  which python
# NO SPACES in first 3 chars in line 1:  #!/
# make sure env is activated! 
# make sure you have "started all" in XAMPP! 
# code below works for a MySQL database in XAMPP on Mac OS
# pymysql can be installed with pip: pip install PyMySQL

import pymysql