An example of how to repeteadly call a function in a thread

threading_job_example.py

class Job(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, interval, execute, *args, **kwargs):
        '''
        Start class with .start()
        :param interval: timedelta
        :param execute: a function
        :param args: list of args
        :param kwargs: dict of args
        '''
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.daemon = False
        self.stopped = threading.Event()
        self.interval = interval
        self.execute = execute
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

    def stop(self):
        self.stopped.set()
        self.join()

    def run(self):
        while not self.stopped.wait(self.interval.total_seconds()):
            self.execute(*self.args, **self.kwargs)