Help on built-in function start_new_thread in module _thread:
start_new_thread(...)
start_new_thread(function, args[, kwargs])
(start_new() is an obsolete synonym)
Start a new thread and return its identifier. The thread will call the
function with positional arguments from the tuple args and keyword arguments
taken from the optional dictionary kwargs. The thread exits when the
function returns; the return value is ignored. The thread will also exit
when the function raises an unhandled exception; a stack trace will be
printed unless the exception is SystemExit.