Eel with threading doesn't recognize exposed functions.

[Carter03]

*Describe the problem
I am trying to start an Eel window then run the rest of main.py. Since eel.start() blocks the program, I used threading to run it separately.
This works exactly how I want it to, except for a strange error.
Whenever I run main.py, I get "AttributeError: module 'eel' has no attribute 'reload'"
However, in VSCode, if I open the tab that contains index.html (without changing anything), then run main.py again, the program works perfectly.

Code snippet(s)
Here is some code that can be easily used to reproduce the problem or understand what I need help with.
`#guiLaunch.py

import eel

def Init():
eel.init('utils')

def OpenWeb():
eel.start('index.html')

def Reload():
eel.reload()`

`#utils/index.html

<script type="text/javascript"> eel.expose(reload); function reload() { window.location.reload(); } </script>`

`#main.py

import threading
import guiLaunch

guiLaunch.Init()
t1 = threading.Thread(target=guiLaunch.OpenWeb())
t1.start()

#in while loop roughly every 5 seconds:
eel.reload()`

I read through the documentation and saw the recommendation of eel.start('index.html', block=False) and eel.spawn(), but this caused the site that was opened to not be found.

Desktop

• OS: Windows
• Browser Chrome
• Version Chrome 117.0.5938.132