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    REST API with Flask

See https://flask.readthedocs.org/en/0.1/quickstart/ for more.
import flask

app = flask.Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return "hello"

@app.route('/submit', methods=['POST', 'GET'])
def submit():
    return flask.request.values['param']

app.run(host='::', port=5000, threaded=True)

Test it with curl. Note that I use zsh, the trailing % means that there was no \n sent.
The root endpoint.
> curl http://localhost:5000/      
Hello%

The /submit endpoint, using the GET method and query parameters.
> curl 'http://localhost:5000/submit?param=bar' -X GET
bar%

The /submit endpoint, using the POST method and form values.
> curl http://localhost:5000/submit -X POST --form param=bar
bar%