title: How can I connect to Cloudant from a Flask App running in Bluemix?
body: <p>I have seen a flask sample project for Bluemix: <a href="https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/bluemix-python-flask-sample" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/bluemix-python-flask-sample</a></p>
  
  <p>How can I connect to Cloudant from this flask application?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Note:</strong> </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I know how to use flask.</li>
  <li>I have seen the instructions for connecting to Cloudant using the <a href="https://cloudant.com/blog/using-python-with-cloudant/#.VW1fHudnlK4" rel="nofollow">requests</a> library and that is the approach I would like to use.</li>
  <li>I have seen the Cloudant <a href="https://docs.cloudant.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">API documentation</a> and I am comfortable with the different API methods.</li>
  </ul>