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

Updated answer for Python 3 that's a bit simpler:

from flask import Flask                                                         
import threading

data = 'foo'
app = Flask(__name__)

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

if __name__ == "__main__":
    threading.Thread(target=app.run).start()