Threaded example

thread

import multiprocessing
from multiprocessing import Pool
from time import sleep

list_of_numbers = list(xrange(101))

def pull_role(stuff):
    print('Sleeping ' + str(stuff))
    sleep(0.1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    core_count = multiprocessing.cpu_count()*2
    print ('calculated cores: ' + str(core_count))
    p = Pool(processes=core_count)
    result = p.map(pull_role, list_of_numbers)