future-thread 1.0

A simple module for creating a background thread and returning a Future object

Creates a thread with Future attributes.

Based on (and actively uses) features from concurrent.futures module to easily start a function in a new background thread without the overhead of using a ThreadPoolExecutor, while still providing a Future style handle around said thread.

Usage:

import time
from future_thread import Future, DeferredFuture

def background():
    time.sleep(10)
    return True

fut = Future(background)
fut.result()  # will block until thread finished


fut = DeferredFuture(background)
# do some other stuff
fut.start()

For more info on the Future object see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.futures.Future