flask-socketio server side

from flask.ext.socketio import SocketIO, emit
# flask app configuration, other flask stuff in between. other stuff cut out for brevity

@socketio.on('my broadcast event', namespace='/live')
def live_message():
    emit('my response', {'data': statuscontent()}, broadcast=True)
    print(request.namespace, 'broadcast socketio')


@socketio.on('connect', namespace='/live')
def live_connect():
    global update_clients
    update_clients = request.namespace
    live_message() #the emit for my broadcast event worked here, but I just left it uniform
    print('client connected')


@socketio.on('disconnect', namespace='/live')
def live_disconnect():
    print('Client disconnected')

@app.route('/punchnfc/<nfc>/')
def punchnfc(nfc):
    global update_clients
    # punch stuff here to prepare it for db
    db.session.add(new_punch)
    db.session.commit()
    request.namespace = update_clients
    live_message() 
    
    '''
    when using emit like so: 
    (emit('my response', {'data': statuscontent()}, namespace=update_clients, broadcast=True)
    it would error, saying request object has no attribute namespace, so the workaround
    is to set this current request.namespace to update_clients.  Another interesting thing, 
    if I recorded the entire request object into update_clients on socketio, and tried printing
    update_clients.namespace, it would also complain that it had no namespace - which made me think
    that it wasn't a separate request object once it gets to this point in the flask function
    '''
    
    return render_template('punch.html', **context)