Installation

Quart is only compatible with Python 3.7 or higher and can be installed using pip or your favorite python package manager:

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pip install quart

If you do not have Python 3.7 or better an error message Python 3.7 is the minimum required version will be displayed.

Dependencies

Quart dependends on the following packages, which will automatically be installed with Quart:

  • aiofiles, to load files in an asyncio compatible manner,

  • blinker, to manager signals,

  • click, to manage command line arguments

  • hypercorn, an ASGI server for development,

  • importlib_metadata only for Python 3.7,

  • itsdangerous, for signing secure cookies,

  • jinja2, for template rendering,

  • markupsafe, for markup rendering,

  • typing_extensions only for Python 3.7,

  • werkzeug, as the basis of many Quart classes.

You can choose to install with the dotenv extra:

pip install quart[dotenv]

Whcih will install the python-dotenv package which enables support for automatically loading environment variables when running quart commands.

See also

Poetry for project management.