Python Programming/Threading

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[edit] A Minimal Example

#!/usr/bin/env python
import threading
import time
 
class MyThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        print "%s started!" % self.getName()
        time.sleep(1)
        print "%s finished!" % self.getName()
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for x in range(4):
        mythread = MyThread(name = "Thread-%d" % (x + 1))
        mythread.start()
        time.sleep(.2)

This should output:

Thread-1 started!
Thread-2 started!
Thread-3 started!
Thread-4 started!
Thread-1 finished!
Thread-2 finished!
Thread-3 finished!
Thread-4 finished!

Note: this example appears to crash IDLE in Windows XP

There seems to be a problem with this, if you replace Sleep(1) with (2) ,and change range (4) to range(10). Thread -2 finished is the first line before its even started. in WING IDE, Netbeans, eclipse is fine.

[edit] A Minimal Example with Function Call

Make a thread that prints numbers from 1-10, waits for 1 sec between:

import thread, time
 
def loop1_10():
    for i in range(1,10):
        time.sleep(1)
        print i
 
thread.start_new_thread(loop1_10, ())