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Run Script in Background

This space is a POC to see if we can run a Python script in the background on spaces w/o calling it from python itself.

• your_script.py is a script a user might submit
• status_checker.py checks if the script is done or not + also acts as the webserver spaces is looking for
• start_server.sh runs your_script.py via nohup, keeps track of the PID by setting it as env variable, then runs status_checker.py.