也许你可以使用线程模块中的Thread
写代码然后用语言解释它更容易，所以：

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep

def function(minutes):
    sleep(60*minutes) # will wait for minutes you define
    # your code for second API request

Thread(target=function, # take an function 
       args=(10,) # Pass in the arguments
       ).start() # start a function

# If your main code stops code will wait for it to end
# and then it will end the program

# Elsely if you want to end when main program ends 

Thread(target=function, # take an function 
       args=(10,), # Pass in the arguments
       daemon=True
       ).start() # start a function

# With this when main program ends the Thread will be forced to end.

参见螺纹文件
如果您想要处理一个无法同时更改的数据集，那么我将使用简单的创建文件和检查文件是否存在

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep
import os
from random import uniform

def function(minutes):
    sleep(60*minutes) # will wait for minutes you define
    # your code for second API request
    # now if you want to change dataset check if file exists

    while os.path.isfile('RUNNING'):
        sleep(uniform(0.5, 1.5))
        # sleep with random number, because Threads would leave
        # loop at the same time and the in next line open() function
        # would raise error: FileExixts, because all of the Threads
        # would want to create same file

    # if not create it
    open('RUNNING', 'x')
    # work with dataset
    os.remove('RUNNING') # remove file

    # This is good if you want to have 2 or more functions
    # to work on something that cannot be done simultaneously
    # because it prevent it

Thread(target=function, # take an function 
       args=(10,) # Pass in the arguments
       ).start() # start a function