Django management command for running a Tornado server

runtornado.py

# coding=utf-8
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from django.conf import settings

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):
        self.write("Tornado says hello!")


tornado_settings = {
    "cookie_secret": settings.SECRET_KEY,
    "static_path": settings.TORNADO_SERVE_ROOT, 
    "static_url_prefix": settings.TORNADO_SERVE_PATH, 
}
application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
], **tornado_settings)

class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = 'Run a tornado server.'

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        application.listen(settings.TORNADO_PORT)
        tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()