Deploy Flask with Gevent Pywsgi Server using Multiprocessing

import sys
from gevent import server
from gevent.baseserver import _tcp_listener
from gevent import pywsgi
from gevent.monkey import patch_all; patch_all()
from multiprocessing import Process, current_process, cpu_count

def hello_world(env, start_response):
    if env['PATH_INFO'] == '/':
        start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
        return ["<b>hello world</b>"]
    else:
        start_response('404 Not Found', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
        return ['<h1>Not Found</h1>']

listener = _tcp_listener(('127.0.0.1', 8001))

def serve_forever(listener):
    pywsgi.WSGIServer(listener, hello_world).serve_forever()

number_of_processes = 5
print 'Starting %s processes' % number_of_processes
for i in range(number_of_processes):
    Process(target=serve_forever, args=(listener,)).start()

serve_forever(listener)

References
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7407868/gevent-pywsgi-server-multiprocessing

Direct Drawing a rectangle on Images with a mouse with OpenCV Python

import cv2
import numpy as np

is_drawing = False
ix = -1
iy = -1

blank_image = np.zeros([512, 512, 3], dtype=np.uint8)


def draw_rectangle(event, x, y, flags, param):
    global is_drawing, ix, iy

    if event == cv2.EVENT_LBUTTONDOWN:
        is_drawing = True
        ix = x
        iy = y
    elif event == cv2.EVENT_LBUTTONUP:
        is_drawing = False
        cv2.rectangle(img=blank_image, pt1=(ix, iy), pt2=(x, y), color=(255, 0, 0), thickness=-1)
        ix = -1
        iy = -1
    elif event == cv2.EVENT_MOUSEMOVE:
        if is_drawing:
            cv2.rectangle(img=blank_image, pt1=(ix, iy), pt2=(x, y), color=(255, 0, 0), thickness=-1)


cv2.namedWindow("image")
cv2.setMouseCallback("image", draw_rectangle)

while True:
    cv2.imshow("image", blank_image)

    # wait 5 seconds then wait for ESC key
    if cv2.waitKey(5) & 0xFF == 27:
        break

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

References
https://github.com/mhdr/OpenCVSamples/tree/master/011