What is the g object in this Flask code?

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g is an object provided by Flask. It is a global namespace for holding any data you want during a single app context. For example, a before_request handler could set g.user, which will be accessible to the route and other functions.

from flask import g

@app.before_request
def load_user():
    user = User.query.get(request.session.get("user_id"))
    g.user = user

@app.route("/admin")
def admin():
    if g.user is None or not g.user.is_admin:
        return redirect(url_for("index"))

An app context lasts for one request / response cycle, g is not appropriate for storing data across requests. Use a database, redis, the session, or another external data source for persisting data.

Note that the dev server and any web server will output timing information in the logs already. If you really want to profile your code, you can use the Werkzeug application profiler.

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