Start a flask application in separate thread

Question

I\'m currently developing a Python application on which I want to see real-time statistics. I wanted to use Flask in order to make it easy to use and to underst

Answer 1

If you are looking for accessing iPython terminal in Flask run your application in a separate thread. Try this example:

from flask import Flask                                                         
import thread

data = 'foo'
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def main():
    return data

def flaskThread():
    app.run()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    thread.start_new_thread(flaskThread, ())

(Run this file in iPython)