Threaded or forking HTTP server in Python

httpd.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn, ForkingMixIn
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

class ThreadingSimpleServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
    pass

class ForkingSimpleServer(ForkingMixIn, HTTPServer):
    pass

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    port = int(sys.argv[1])
else:
    port = 8000

server = ThreadingSimpleServer(('', port), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
# server = ForkingSimpleServer(('', port), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
addr, port = server.server_address
print("Serving HTTP on %s port %d ..." % (addr, port))

try:
    while 1:
        sys.stdout.flush()
        server.handle_request()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print "Finished"