Running streamlit from script and keeping the context

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Hello,

I’m currently setting up a script to run Streamlit by bypassing the command line tool like so:

sys.argv = ["streamlit", "run", my_script.__file__]
sys.exit(main())

However, it seems that by doing that, I don’t link any report context into my app. What will be the best way to create this context and assign it to the main running thread?

Thank you in advance.

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Hi @antggt, welcome to the Streamlit community!

What is the high-level problem you’re trying to solve for here?

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Thank you @randyzwitch,
I need to run Streamlit not from the command line tool because my executable is a self-contained environment.
Within my app, I want to access my session to create a state linked to each session.
It seems that generally, streamlit will create a fake browser in startup to have a context linked to it as well. I noticed that, by using this technique, there was no initial report context for my app, so I try to find out what is the best way to create that context and attach it the the main thread that is calling the app.

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I’ll try and see if anyone on our engineering team has any intuition about this, it’s definitely a corner case to how we’ve expected people to try and deploy Streamlit

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