How to run background tasks in python

Question

I'm developing a small web service with Flask which needs to run background tasks, preferably from a task queue. However, after googling the subject the only results were essentially Celery and Redis Queue, which apparently require separate queuing services and thus are options that are far too heavy and convoluted to deploy. As all I'm looking for is a simple background task queue that enables tasks to be queued and executed on separate threads/processes, does anyone know if there is anything like this available in Python?

Answer 1

import threading
import time

class BackgroundTasks(threading.Thread):
    def run(self,*args,**kwargs):
        while True:
            print('Hello')
            time.sleep(1)

t = BackgroundTasks()
t.start()

After the while statement , you can put the code you want to run in background. Maybe deleting some models , sending email or whatever.

Answer 2

The asyncio library might be what you are looking for

import asyncio

async def main():
    print('Hello ...')
    await asyncio.sleep(1)
    print('... World!')

# Python 3.7+
asyncio.run(main())