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Simple Flask app with a background task using gevent
import gevent
import gevent.monkey
gevent.monkey.patch_all()
from gevent.pywsgi import WSGIServer
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
app.debug = True
# Simple catch-all server
@app.route('/', defaults={'path': ''}, methods=['GET', 'POST'])
@app.route('/<path:path>', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def catch_all(path):
return 'It is Working!'
def background():
count = 0
while True:
print count
count += 1
gevent.sleep(1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
http_server = WSGIServer(('', 4430), app, keyfile='server.key', certfile='server.crt')
srv_greenlet = gevent.spawn(http_server.start)
background_task = gevent.spawn(background)
try:
gevent.joinall([srv_greenlet, background_task])
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "Exiting"
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