gistfile1.py

import gevent
from gevent.queue import Queue

tasks = Queue()

def worker(n, work_time):
    while not tasks.empty():
        task = tasks.get()
        print("Worker %s got tasks %s" % (n, task))
        gevent.sleep(work_time) # releases the greenlet to go do something else

    print("Quitting time %s" % n)

def boss():
    for i in xrange(1,25):
        tasks.put_nowait(i)

gevent.spawn(boss).join()

gevent.joinall([
    gevent.spawn(lambda args: worker(*args), ('steve', 0.1)),
    gevent.spawn(lambda args: worker(*args), ('james', 0.2)),
    gevent.spawn(lambda args: worker(*args), ('nancy', 0.3)),
    ])