background/README.rst

background: does what it says it does
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This module makes it stupidly simple to run things in the background of your
application, be it a CLI app, or a web app.

> "An elegant decorator-based abstraction around Python 3's concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor class" — Simon Wilson

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Basic Usage
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.. code:: python


    import time

    import background

    @background.task
    def work():
        # Do something expensive here.
        time.sleep(10)


    for _ in range(100):
        work()


Advanced Usage
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.. code:: python


    import background

    # Use 40 background threads.
    background.n = 40


    @background.task
    def work():
        import time
        time.sleep(10)

    @background.callback
    def work_callback(future):
        print(future)


    for _ in range(100):
        work()