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')

Python 3.7及以后版本中更新的asyncio运行方法是使用asyncio.run()，而不是创建循环并调用loop.run_until_complete()并关闭它:

import asyncio
import datetime

async def display_date(delay):
    loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
    end_time = loop.time() + delay
    while True:
        print("Blocking...", datetime.datetime.now())
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
        if loop.time() > end_time:
            print("Done.")
            break


asyncio.run(display_date(5))

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。

这对我来说很有用，你可以调用这个函数，它会把自己分派到一个新的线程上。

from thread import start_new_thread

def dowork(asynchronous=True):
    if asynchronous:
        args = (False)
        start_new_thread(dowork,args) #Call itself on a new thread.
    else:
        while True:
            #do something...
            time.sleep(60) #sleep for a minute
    return

从Python 3.5开始，可以对异步函数使用增强的生成器。

import asyncio
import datetime

增强的生成器语法:

@asyncio.coroutine
def display_date(loop):
    end_time = loop.time() + 5.0
    while True:
        print(datetime.datetime.now())
        if (loop.time() + 1.0) >= end_time:
            break
        yield from asyncio.sleep(1)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# Blocking call which returns when the display_date() coroutine is done
loop.run_until_complete(display_date(loop))
loop.close()

新的async/await语法:

async def display_date(loop):
    end_time = loop.time() + 5.0
    while True:
        print(datetime.datetime.now())
        if (loop.time() + 1.0) >= end_time:
            break
        await asyncio.sleep(1)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# Blocking call which returns when the display_date() coroutine is done
loop.run_until_complete(display_date(loop))
loop.close()

Just

import threading, time

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

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