How to not wait for function to finish python

Question

I\'m trying to program a loop with a asynchronous part in it. I dont want to wait for this asynchronous part every iteration though. Is there a way to not wait for this function

Answer 1

To expand on blue_note, let's say you have a function with arguments:

def test(b):
    global a
    time.sleep(1)
    a += 1 + b

You need to pass in your args like this:

from threading import Thread
b = 1
Thread(target=test, args=(b, )).start()
print("this will be printed immediately")

Note args must be a tuple.