How To Run A Task Outside Web2py And Retrieve The Output

Getting extended processing times inside web2py when running clustering algorithms. Tried running the algorithm on a standalone python instance and it finishes in 4-5s, in web2py,

Solution 1:

You should use http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess to a brand new Python instance and passing parameter through stdin / stdou using pickling (serialization).