concurrent.futures module

The concurrent.futures module was added in Python 3.2. According to the Python documentation it provides the developer with a high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables. Basically concurrent.futures is an abstraction layer on top of Python’s threading and multiprocessing modules that simplifies using them. However it should be noted that while the abstraction layer simplifies the usage of these modules, it also removes a lot of their flexibility, so if you need to do something custom, then this might not be the best module for you.