How to dynamically enable/disable Tornado Auth on Python script?

Question

I would like to have a Python script that start the Tornado. I would like to like to enable auth only on the production stage and disable auth during development stage.

# This is the main page handler
class MainPageHandler(BaseHandler):
    def get(self):
        if not self.get_current_token():
            self.redirect(self.reverse_full_url("tokenLogin"))
            return
        self.render('index.html')

# This is the main tornado app
class Application(tornado.web.Application):
  def __init__(self, disableAuth=False):
    ...

# This is running in main function
Application(disableAuth).listen(PORT, HOST)

Would it be possible that I could switch on/off auth using python argument? An example would be very very nice.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Currently I would use a global flag (a flag in the config file) to take care of passing the variable around.