Simple Threading example in python from http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/09/simplistic-python-thread-example/

thread-simple-example.py

import time
from threading import Thread

def myfunc(i):
    print "sleeping 5 sec from thread %d" % i
    time.sleep(5)
    print "finished sleeping from thread %d" % i

for i in range(10):
    t = Thread(target=myfunc, args=(i,))
    t.start()