playing around with a flask server

server.py

# imports
from flask import Flask
import urllib

# instantiate server
app = Flask(__name__)

# vars
url ='http://snapguide.com/api/v1/guide/b995492d5e7943e3b2757a88fe3ef7c6'

# routes
@app.route('/')
def default():
    return ''

@app.route('/data')
def data():
	global url
	return urllib.urlopen(url).read()

# start server
app.run()