from flask import request

request.data
request.args

raise RuntimeError('working outside of request context')
RuntimeError: working outside of request context

>>> import flask.request
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named request
>>>

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)

with app.test_request_context('/foo/bar'):
    print request.path  # prints '/foo/bar'