Question

while learning some basic programming with python, i found web.py. i
got stuck with a stupid problem:

i wrote a simple console app with a main loop that proccesses items
from a queue in seperate threads. my goal is to use web.py to add
items to my queue and report status of the queue via web request. i
got this running as a module but can´t integrate it into my main app.
my problem is when i start the http server with app.run() it blocks my
main loop.
also tried to start it with thread.start_new_thread but it still
blocks.
is there an easy way to run web.py´s integrated http server in the
background within my app.

in the likely event that i am a victim of a fundamental
missunderstanding, any attempt to clarify my error in reasoning would
help ;.) ( please bear with me, i am a beginner 🙂

Answer 1

I found a working solution. In a seperate module i create my webserver:

import web
import threading
class MyWebserver(threading.Thread):

    def run (self):
        urls = ('/', 'MyWebserver')
        app = web.application(urls, globals())
        app.run()

    def POST ...

In the main programm i just call

MyWebserver().start()

and than go on with whatever i want while having the webserver working in the background.