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# thread basics: start 10 copies of a function
# running in parallel; uses time.sleep so that 
# main thread doesn't die too early--this kills 
# all other threads on both Windows and Linux;
# stdout shared: thread outputs may be intermixed
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import thread, time

def counter(myId, count):                    # this function runs in threads
    for i in range(count): 
        #time.sleep(1)
        print '[%s] => %s' % (myId, i)

for i in range(10):                          # spawn 10 threads
    thread.start_new(counter, (i, 3))        # each thread loops 3 times

time.sleep(4)
print 'Main thread exiting.'                 # don't exit too early