Threading example

import time
import threading


# Threaded function-call -------------------------------------------------------

def counter(x):
    for i in xrange(x):
        print i
        time.sleep(1)

t = threading.Thread(target = counter, args = [30])
t.start()



# Thread-class subclassing -----------------------------------------------------

class CounterThread(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, x):
        super(CounterThread, self).__init__()   # DO NOT FORGET THIS !
        self.x = x

    def run(self):
        for i in xrange(self.x):
            print i
            time.sleep(1)

t = CounterThread(30)
t.start()