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reference media files outside of flask


After much deliberation, the best of many evils was to generate symlinks for the fles


This seems to be a big help

So after that... what works for me is to include this;

from Flask import send_filetop_dir = 'top/'mid_dir = 'mid/'more_dir = '/and/this/'filename = 'some_photo.jpg'@wip.route('/photo')def photo():    return send_file(top_dir+mid_dir+more_dir+filename)

serves up the file!