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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.
Feel free to join us in #gunicorn_ on Libera.chat_.
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
See our complete contributor's guide <CONTRIBUTING.md>_ for more details.
Gunicorn is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE_ file for more details.
.. _Unicorn: https://bogomips.org/unicorn/
.. _#gunicorn: https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#gunicorn
.. _Libera.chat: https://libera.chat/
.. _LICENSE: https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/LICENSE
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WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
We found that gunicorn demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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