Team named tuple, sheduler and refreshScores implementation with singleton Teams data

trivia/__init__.py

@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
 """
 __init__.py
 """
+from collections import namedtuple
 
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
 from flask import Flask
 
-# initialize Flask object
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
-from trivia import routes, api
+# Simple fake 'class' for passing to jinja templates
+Team = namedtuple('Team', ['id', 'name', 'scores'])
+
+from trivia import routes, api, utils
+
+# Setup a scheduler for automatically refreshing data
+scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
+scheduler.add_job(func=utils.refreshScores, trigger="interval", seconds=5)
+
+utils.refreshScores()
+

trivia/utils.py

@@ -3,20 +3,20 @@ utils.py
 
 Stores important backend application functionality.
 """
-import os
 import json
+import os
 
-from typing import List
 from trivia import Team
 
 # Generate paths
 BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 DATA_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'data')
 
-data: List[Team] = None
+# data: List[Team] = []
+teams = []
 
 
-def refresh() -> None:
+def refreshScores() -> None:
     """
     Refreshes scores data safely.
 
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ def refresh() -> None:
         # Place all values into Team object for jinja
         temp = [
             Team(
-                rank=-1,
                 id=team['teamno'],
                 name=team['teamname'],
                 scores=team['scores']
             ) for team in temp
         ]
         print(f'Successfully loaded ({len(temp)} teams).')
-        data = temp
+        global teams
+        teams = temp
     # If invalid or inaccessible, simply do nothing.
     except json.JSONDecodeError:
         print('Scores file could not be opened or parsed.')