import requests
from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool

%time r = requests.get("http://localhost:8888/10")
r.content

def get_data(ID):
    """function for getting data from our slow server"""
    r = requests.get("http://localhost:8888/%i" % ID)
    return int(r.content)

IDs = range(128)
for nthreads in [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32]:
    pool = ThreadPool(nthreads)
    tic = time.time()
    result = pool.map(get_data, IDs)
    toc = time.time()
    print "%i threads: %3.1f seconds" % (nthreads, toc-tic)