Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly speedy.
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The documentation is hosted at https://docs.gunicorn.org.
Gunicorn requires Python 3.x >= 3.7.
Install from PyPI:
$ pip install gunicorn
Basic usage:
$ gunicorn [OPTIONS] APP_MODULE
Where APP_MODULE is of the pattern $(MODULE_NAME):$(VARIABLE_NAME). The
module name can be a full dotted path. The variable name refers to a WSGI
callable that should be found in the specified module.
Example with test app:
$ cd examples $ gunicorn --workers=2 test:app
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Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.
