sprockets.http 0.4.0

Tornado HTTP application runner

This library runs Tornado HTTP server applications intelligently.

• SIGTERM is gracefully handled with respect to outstanding timeouts and callbacks

• Listening port is configured by the PORT environment variable

• logging layer is configured to output JSON by default

• “Debug mode” is enabled by the DEBUG environment variable

  • makes log out human-readable

  • catches SIGINT (e.g., Ctrl+C)

  • application run in a single process

Example Usage

from tornado import web
import sprockets.http


def make_app(**settings):
    return web.Application([
       # insert your handlers
    ], **settings)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sprockets.http.run(make_app)