Sleep sort in Python

sleep_sort.py

import thread
from time import sleep

items = [2, 4, 5, 2, 1, 7]

def sleep_sort(i):
        sleep(i)
        print i

[thread.start_new_thread(sleep_sort, (i,)) for i in items]

Thanks. This code (Python 2) has been updated to Python 3 in my fork.