Reputation: 113
My program is sending out an http post every 250ms or so and I want it to keep running while the request goes through. Essentially I am looking for something like a file and forget system that just sends off the request (perhaps in a different thread) and keeps on going without waiting for a response from the server.
The program looks something like:
while True:
value_to_send = some_function()
x = requests.post(url, json = myjson) # this json has the updated value_to_send in it
Upvotes: 0
Views: 522
Reputation: 18136
You could use threads and simply dont wait for them to finish:
from threading import Thread
import time
def request():
# value_to_send = some_function()
# x = requests.post(url, json = myjson)
print('started')
time.sleep(.5)
print("request done!")
def main():
while True:
t = Thread(target=request)
t.start()
time.sleep(.25)
main()
Output:
started
started
request done!
started
request done!
started
request done!
...
Upvotes: 1