[Python] Object Oriented Python with Flask Server?

I'm using Flask to expose some data-crunching code as a web service. I'd like to have some class variables that my Flask functions can access.

Let me walk you through where I'm stuck:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

class MyServer:
def __init__(self):
globalData = json.load(filename)

@app.route('/getSomeData')
def getSomeData():
return random.choice(globalData) #select some random data to return

if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host='0.0.0.0')


When I run getSomeData() outside of Flask, it works fine. But, when I run this with Flask, I get 500 internal server error. There's no magic here, and Flask has no idea that it's supposed to initialize a MyServer object. How can I feed an instance of MyServer to the app.run() command?

I could admit defeat and put globalData into a database instead. But, is there an other way?

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