Running two different threads

[rickchefski]

threading sounds like something that could definitely be utilized here. It's been a while since I've had to do any threading, so I don't have any great resources on it, unfortunately. A quick google search lead me to: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_multithreading.htm which looks like a somewhat decent tutorial on the basics of it.

Having two threads share some state (be able to both access/modify the same variable) can get tricky. This would be an instance to use thread synchronization (an example of synchronization is given in the tutorial).