Run Python HTTPServer in Background and Continue Script Execution

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Michael Scott picture Michael Scott · Oct 9, 2015 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I am trying to figure out how to run my overloaded customized BaseHTTPServer instance in the background after running the "".serve_forever() method.

Normally when you run the method execution will hang until you execute a keyboard interrupt, but I would like it to serve requests in the background while continuing script execution. Please help!

Answer

Oliver Dain picture Oliver Dain · Oct 9, 2015

You can start the server in a different thread: https://docs.python.org/2/library/thread.html

So something like:

def start_server():
    # Setup stuff here...
    server.serve_forever()

# start the server in a background thread
thread.start_new_thread(start_server)

print('The server is running but my script is still executing!')

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