parallel.py

#!/usr/bin/env python


import urllib2
from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool

urls = [
    'https://medium.com/p/40e9b2b36148'
    # Thanks for the awesome tut in parallelism
    # follow the link above for full tut
]

# Make the Pool of workers
pool = ThreadPool(4)

# Open the urls in their own threads
# and return the results
results = pool.map(urllib2.urlopen, urls)

# Close the pool and wait for the work to finish
pool.close()
pool.join()