`eventlet.spawn` doesn't work as expected

Question

I\'m writing a web UI for data analysis tasks.

Here\'s the way it\'s supposed to work:

After a user specifies parameters like dataset and

Answer 1

Eventlet may indeed be suitable for your purposes, but it doesn't just fit in with any old application; Eventlet requires that it be in control of all your application's I/O.

You may be able to get away with either

1. Starting Eventlet's main loop in another thread, or even

2. Not using Eventlet and just spawning your task in another thread.

Celery may be another option.