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Decorator that runs a function in a thread

I wrote a small decorator that will convert any function to run in a thread:

import threading

def run_threaded(fn):
    """A decorator that makes a function run in a thread."""

    def run(*k, **kw):
        t = threading.Thread(target=fn, args=k, kwargs=kw)
        t.start()
        return t

    return run

Example:

@run_threaded
def add(x, y):
    # This runs in a separate thread.
    print(x+y)
	
add(1+2)

That's it!

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