“Fire and forget” python async/await

Question

Sometimes there is some non-critical asynchronous operation that needs to happen but I don\'t want to wait for it to complete. In Tornado\'s coroutine implementation you ca

Answer 1

For some reason if you are unable to use asyncio then here is the implementation using plain threads. Check my other answers and Sergey's answer too.

import threading

def fire_and_forget(f):
    def wrapped():
        threading.Thread(target=f).start()

    return wrapped

@fire_and_forget
def foo():
    time.sleep(1)
    print("foo() completed")

print("Hello")
foo()
print("I didn't wait for foo()")