title: Multithreading in Python within a for loop
body: <p>Let's say I have a program in Python which looks like this:</p>
  <pre><code>import time
  
  def send_message_realtime(s):
      print(&quot;Real Time: &quot;, s)
      
  def send_message_delay(s):
      time.sleep(5)
      print(&quot;Delayed Message &quot;, s)
  
  for i in range(10):
      send_message_realtime(str(i))
      time.sleep(1)
      send_message_delay(str(i))
  </code></pre>
  <p>What I am trying to do here is some sort of multithreading, so that the contents of my main for loop continues to execute without having to wait for the delay caused by time.sleep(5) in the delayed function.</p>
  <p>Ideally, the piece of code that I am working upon looks something like below. I get a message from some API endpoint which I want to send to a particular telegram channel in real-time(paid subscribers), but I also want to send it to another channel by delaying it exactly 10 minutes or 600 seconds since they're free members. The problem I am facing is, I want to keep sending the message in real-time to my paid subscribers and kind of create a new thread/process for the delayed message which runs independently of the main while loop.</p>
  <pre><code>def send_message_realtime(my_realtime_message):
      telegram.send(my_realtime_message)
  
  
  def send_message_delayed(my_realtime_message):
      time.sleep(600)
      telegram.send(my_realtime_message)
  
  while True:
      my_realtime_message = api.get()
      send_message_realtime(my_realtime_message)
      send_message_delayed(my_realtime_message)
  </code></pre>