import os
    import datetime
    import threading
    from subprocess import Popen

    today = datetime.date.today()
    os.makedirs("C:/newscript_image/" + str(today))

    class myThread(threading.Thread):
        def run(self):
            for filename in os.listdir('./newscript/'):
                if '.htm' in filename:
                    name = filename.strip('.htm')

                    dbfolder = "C:/newscript/db/" + name
                    os.makedirs(dbfolder)

                    Popen("python.exe C:/execution.py" + ' ' + filename + ' ' + name + ' ' + str(today) + ' ' + dbfolder)
    myThread().start()

import multiprocessing
import execution
import datetime

#assume we have a function:
#exection.run_main_with_args(filename,name,today_str,dbfolder)

today = datetime.datetime.today()
def my_execute(filename):
    if '.htm' in filename:
       name = filename.strip('.htm')
       dbfolder = "C:/newscript/db/" + name
       os.makedirs(dbfolder)
       execution.run_main_with_args(filename,name,str(today),dbfolder)

p = multiprocessing.Pool()
p.map(my_execute,list_of_files_to_process)

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import threading
from subprocess import Popen

class myThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        for filename in os.listdir("./newscript/"):
            if '.htm' in filename:
                Popen("./busy.sh")

myThread().start()

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while :
do
    uptime >> $$
    sleep 1
done

import subprocess


def run_main_with_args(filename,name,today,dbfolder):
    print('{} {} {}'.format('nfilename: ',filename, ''))
    print('{} {} {}'.format('name: ',name, ''))
    print('{} {} {}'.format('today: ',today, ''))
    print('{} {} {}'.format('dbfolder: ',dbfolder, ''))

    outfile = dbfolder+ '/' + name + '.txt'
    with open (outfile, 'w') as fout:
        print('name', file=fout)

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Author      : Bhishan Poudel; Physics Graduate Student, Ohio University
# Date        : Aug 29, 2016
#

# Imports
import multiprocessing,os,subprocess
import datetime
import execution  # file: execution.py

#assume we have a function:
#exection.run_main_with_args(filename,name,today_str,dbfolder)

today = datetime.datetime.today()
def my_execute(filename):
    if '.txt' in filename:
       name = filename.strip('.txt')
       dbfolder = "db/" + name
       if not os.path.exists(dbfolder): os.makedirs(dbfolder)
       execution.run_main_with_args(filename,name,str(today),dbfolder)



p = multiprocessing.Pool()
p.map(my_execute,['file1.txt', 'file2.txt'])