title: How to run background tasks in python
body: <p>I'm developing a small web service with Flask which needs to run background tasks, preferably from a task queue.  However, after googling the subject the only results were essentially Celery and Redis Queue, which apparently require separate queuing services and thus are options that are far too heavy and convoluted to deploy.  As all I'm looking for is a simple background task queue that enables tasks to be queued and executed on separate threads/processes, does anyone know if there is anything like this available in Python?</p>