How to pass a variable by name to a Thread in Python?

Question

Say that I have a function that looks like:

def _thread_function(arg1, arg2=None, arg3=None):
    #Random code

Now I want to create a thread us

Answer 1

Use the kwargs parameter:

threading.Thread(target=self._thread_function, args=(arg1,),
                 kwargs={'arg2':arg2}, name='thread_function').start()