threadz

#!/usr/bin/env python

import thread
import time

# Global variables
MAX = 50

# Functions
def print_time( threadName, delay):
   '''
   Simple thread function, spawns off 6 threads
   '''
   max = MAX
   count = 0
   while count < max:
      time.sleep(delay)
      count += 1
      print "%s: %s - Current count is [%s]" % ( threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), count )

# Create six threads as follows
try:
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-1", 1, ) )
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-2", 1, ) )
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-3", 1, ) )
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-4", 1, ) )
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-5", 1, ) )
   thread.start_new_thread( print_time, ("Thread-6", 1, ) )
except:
   print "Error: unable to start thread"

while 1:
   pass