task_thread = threading.Thread(target=lambda: task_wrapper(task, **kwargs)) # Normally we'd do task_wrapper(task, **kwargs), but because of threading we'd have to do Thread(target=task_wrapper, args=(task, **kwargs)), which doesn't work because the **kwargs is inside a tuple, not inside function params. Use lambda to get around the args=tuple nonsense
task_thread = threading.Thread(target=lambda: task_wrapper(task, **kwargs)) # Normally we'd do task_wrapper(task, **kwargs), but because of threading we'd have to do Thread(target=task_wrapper, args=(task, **kwargs)), which doesn't work because the **kwargs is inside a tuple, not inside function params. Use lambda to get around the args=tuple nonsense
task_thread.name = "task {} (spawned at {} UTC)".format(task_name, time.asctime())