Python: How to NOT wait for a thread to finish to carry on? [duplicate]

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Problem is that you’re actually calling your method when passing it as argument of Thread.

So it executes, but in the current thread, that’s why it’s working but it’s blocking (and since it probably returns None, you get no error from the Thread object, it just blocks)

Remove parentheses to pass the function object, not the result from the call!

thread = Thread(target = processEmail.main)
thread.start()

Note: some IDEs like PyCharm automatically add parentheses to function names. That’s a bad idea in that case 🙂

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