python - Non blocking CherryPy does not receive anything -

i trying run cherrypy cherrypy.engine.start instead of cherrypy.quickstart. that's because want run cherrypy in non blocking state start , stop web server within functional tests py.test.

this works fine:

cherrypy.quickstart(webservertest(none), config=testconf) 

the response curl is:

curl --head http://127.0.0.1:1026/index http/1.1 200 ok     date: thu, 08 aug 2013 12:54:37 gmt     content-length: 0     content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8     server: cherrypy/3.2.2 

but it's blocking rest of script execute.

however not work:

testconf = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'webservertest.conf') web_server = webservertest(none) cherrypy.tree.mount(web_server, "", config=testconf) cherrypy.engine.start() time.sleep(60) cherrypy.engine.stop() 

the response curl is:

curl --head http://127.0.0.1:1026/index     curl: (7) couldn't connect host 

adding cherrypy.engine.block() aftet cherrypy.engine.start not solve problem.

so how can make work cherrypy.engine.start()?

the webservertest.conf config file is:

[global] server.socket_host = "127.0.0.1" server.socket_port = 1026 server.thread_pool = 10 

you need pass conf cherrypy.config.update(conf). global config (including server host , port), whereas tree.mount call sets config particular app. read source code of quickstart see gory details.