Python bottle runs initialization method twice

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I've got a problem with bottle, the `_initialize` function is run twice. Example app: ``` @route("/index") def index(): return "bang" def _initialize(): print("bam") if __name__ == "__main__": _initialize() run(reloader=True, host="localhost", port = 8990) ``` The output is: ``` bam bam Bottle v0.11.rc1 server starting up (using WSGIRefServer())... Listening on http://localhost:8080/ Hit Ctrl-C to quit. ``` Why is it happening and how can I do such pre init in bottle?

Accepted Answer

The problem is the `reloader=True` argument for the `run` function. See http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#auto-reloading for the sentence:

All module-level code is executed at least twice! Be careful.

Python bottle runs initialization method twice

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