Simple example of using threading in python3 to speed up the download of files from the web (in this case, popular images from the imgur API).
Also uses the secrets.py technique from two scoops of django, to keep my imgur client id out of github.
Credit to Marcus McCurdy for creating the tutorial on threading: http://www.toptal.com/python/beginners-guide-to-concurrency-and-parallelism-in-python