Python Flask App Not Exiting With Sys Exit

I'd like to be able to terminate my flask app remotely with an http request like this: import flask import sys master = flask.Flask(__name__) @master.route('/shutdown') def shutd

Solution 1:

I think there's no bug.

As flask is probably catching all exceptions in order to do not stop the main process from serving the application.

As you mention, using os._exit(0) does the work.

As far as I've seen, it's catched by python2.7/SocketServer.py:

598try:
599             self.finish_request(request, client_address)
600             self.shutdown_request(request)
601except:
602             self.handle_error(request, client_address)
603             self.shutdown_request(request)

Which basically catches everything but handles an error.

BTW: Am I the only one who thinks that this could be refactored with a try/except/finally?