Hack to write to Streamlit app from another thread. See: https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/live-plot-from-a-thread/247

thread_safe_st.py

import streamlit.ReportThread as ReportThread
from streamlit.server.Server import Server


class ThreadSafeSt():
    def __init__(self):
        """Object that write to a Streamlit app outside the main thread.
        
        This object must be created from the main thread, and then passed
        around to other threads so they can write to the Streamlit app.

        Example
        -------

        >>> # This must be called from the main thread:
        >>> thread_safe_st = ThreadSafeSt()
        >>>
        >>> def function_called_from_another_thread(arg1, arg2, st):
        ...   st.main.markdown('arg1 is: %s' % arg1)
        ...   st.sidebar.markdown('arg2 is: %s' % arg2)
        >>>
        >>> # On another thread:
        >>> function_called_from_another_thread(10, 20, thread_safe_st)

        """
        ctx = ReportThread.get_report_ctx()
        self.main = ctx.main_dg
        self.sidebar = ctx.sidebar_dg

not sure this works anymore.....v0.55.0

AttributeError: 'ReportContext' object has no attribute 'main_dg'

not sure this works anymore.....v0.55.0

AttributeError: 'ReportContext' object has no attribute 'main_dg'

Have you found a solution for this?

i didn't seem to have this problem on v0.53.0 so i stayed there.

However, @jrhone wrote this gist to solve a different problem with a similar root problem.

It seems that they made it easier, hence this wrapper is now obsolete. Here is what seems to work for me:

from streamlit.ReportThread import add_report_ctx

# Your thread creation code:
thread = threading.Thread(target=runInThread, args=(onExit, PopenArgs))
add_report_ctx(thread)
thread.start()

Credit: @tim - https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/how-to-run-a-subprocess-programs-using-thread-inside-streamlit/2440