Asyncrounous Anything in python 3

async_downloader.py

import threading
from queue import Queue


class AsyncThread(threading.Thread):
    """
    Based off of ssynchronous downloading script pull from stackoverflow
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18883964/asynchronous-file-downloads-in-python
    """
    def __init__(self, queue, func):
        super(AsyncThread, self).__init__()
        self.queue = queue
        self.func = func
        self.daemon = True

    def run(self):
        while True:
            item = self.queue.get()
            try:
                self.func(item)
            except Exception as e:
                print("   Error: %s" % e)
            self.queue.task_done()


def run_async(items, func, numthreads=4):
    """
    Items is a list of tuples:
    (url, desitnation folder)
    """
    queue = Queue()
    for item in items:
        queue.put(item)

    for i in range(numthreads):
        t = AsyncThread(queue, func)
        t.start()

    queue.join()

items = list(glob("*"))
run_async(items, some_func)