您可以实现一个装饰器来使您的函数异步，尽管这有点棘手。多处理模块充满了小怪癖和看似任意的限制——尽管如此，更有理由将它封装在友好的界面后面。

from inspect import getmodule
from multiprocessing import Pool


def async(decorated):
    r'''Wraps a top-level function around an asynchronous dispatcher.

        when the decorated function is called, a task is submitted to a
        process pool, and a future object is returned, providing access to an
        eventual return value.

        The future object has a blocking get() method to access the task
        result: it will return immediately if the job is already done, or block
        until it completes.

        This decorator won't work on methods, due to limitations in Python's
        pickling machinery (in principle methods could be made pickleable, but
        good luck on that).
    '''
    # Keeps the original function visible from the module global namespace,
    # under a name consistent to its __name__ attribute. This is necessary for
    # the multiprocessing pickling machinery to work properly.
    module = getmodule(decorated)
    decorated.__name__ += '_original'
    setattr(module, decorated.__name__, decorated)

    def send(*args, **opts):
        return async.pool.apply_async(decorated, args, opts)

    return send

下面的代码说明了装饰器的用法:

@async
def printsum(uid, values):
    summed = 0
    for value in values:
        summed += value

    print("Worker %i: sum value is %i" % (uid, summed))

    return (uid, summed)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    from random import sample

    # The process pool must be created inside __main__.
    async.pool = Pool(4)

    p = range(0, 1000)
    results = []
    for i in range(4):
        result = printsum(i, sample(p, 100))
        results.append(result)

    for result in results:
        print("Worker %i: sum value is %i" % result.get())

在实际的情况下，我将详细介绍装饰器，提供一些方法来关闭它以进行调试(同时保持未来的接口在适当的位置)，或者可能是处理异常的工具;但我认为这充分说明了原理。

它不在语言核心中，但Twisted是一个非常成熟的库，可以做你想要的事情。它引入Deferred对象，您可以将回调或错误处理程序(“errbacks”)附加到该对象。Deferred基本上是一个“承诺”，即一个函数最终会有一个结果。

喜欢的东西:

import threading

thr = threading.Thread(target=foo, args=(), kwargs={})
thr.start() # Will run "foo"
....
thr.is_alive() # Will return whether foo is running currently
....
thr.join() # Will wait till "foo" is done

有关详细信息，请参阅https://docs.python.org/library/threading.html上的文档。

Just

import threading, time

def f():
    print "f started"
    time.sleep(3)
    print "f finished"

threading.Thread(target=f).start()

您可以使用Python 2.6中添加的多处理模块。您可以使用进程池，然后通过以下方式异步获取结果:

apply_async(func[, args[, kwds[, callback]]])

例如:

from multiprocessing import Pool

def f(x):
    return x*x

if __name__ == '__main__':
    pool = Pool(processes=1)              # Start a worker processes.
    result = pool.apply_async(f, [10], callback) # Evaluate "f(10)" asynchronously calling callback when finished.

这只是一种选择。这个模块提供了很多工具来实现你想要的。此外，它将很容易从这做一个装饰。

你可以使用并发。期货(在Python 3.2中添加)。

import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor


def long_computation(duration):
    for x in range(0, duration):
        print(x)
        time.sleep(1)
    return duration * 2


print('Use polling')
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
    future = executor.submit(long_computation, 5)
    while not future.done():
        print('waiting...')
        time.sleep(0.5)

    print(future.result())

print('Use callback')
executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
future = executor.submit(long_computation, 5)
future.add_done_callback(lambda f: print(f.result()))

print('waiting for callback')

executor.shutdown(False)  # non-blocking

print('shutdown invoked')