How to do asynchronous calls in streamlit?

[prabodhw96]

I wondered if there was a way in Streamlit to run one process in the background while you’re already running another process.

[GokulNC]

Are you looking for something like this?

How to run a subprocess programs using thread inside streamlit?

I am trying to run python scripts on button click using subprocess and thread. I could able to run it using the following script def PopenCall(onExit, PopenArgs): def runInThread(onExit, PopenArgs): script_ID = PopenArgs[1] proc = subprocess.Popen(PopenArgs) proc.wait() onExit(script_ID) return thread = threading.Thread(target=runInThread, args=(onExit, PopenArgs)) thread.start() …

[asehmi]

The producer / consumer pattern using asyncio works very well. I’m using it in the auth component I built (see the discussion on Auth0 Authentication). Asyncio supports tasks running on other threads too. See the docs: Producer/consumer — Asyncio Documentation 0.0 documentation.