Add a threading.run convenience function

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I think that I would be fine with a threading.run() function which doesn’t accept function keyword arguments, but only threading.Thread keyword arguments:

def run(func, *args, name=None, daemon=None, context=None):
    thread = threading.Thread(target=func, args=args,
                              name=name, daemon=daemon, context=context)
    thread.start()
    return thread

The asyncio loop.call_soon() has the same limitation. The documentation suggests using functools.partial():

   Most asyncio scheduling functions don't allow passing
   keyword arguments. To do that, use functools.partial():

      # will schedule "print("Hello", flush=True)"
      loop.call_soon(
          functools.partial(print, "Hello", flush=True))

According to Romain’s message, the kwargs parameter is rarely used.