[Flask] Flask execute system command / wait / return result ?

Piotr Grabowski kajocina at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 18:38:11 CEST 2015


Hi!

I am in a phase of planning a web application for my group (academic
research) and would love to get some advice or input from more advanced
Flask users/devs.

We developed a bioinformatics tool that we run from a command line, it's
run simply as ./tool_binary <input> <parameters>, so pretty standard stuff.

We also are trying to turn this into an extremely easy-to-use tool for
biologists and are looking for a proper online framework. We decided that
Flask could be a great solution to keep the whole framework running.
(already made it work on Galaxy, but we want to keep it ultra-simple and
nice-looking)

However, does anyone know if Flask could handle an execution of such
command line tool, wait for the tool to finish and send back the user the
generated resulting file ?


Best regards,
Piotr
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/flask/attachments/20150922/4dded711/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Flask mailing list