thread is a low-level threading module, and start_new is deprecated.
Aside from that, thread.start_new(test.()) is syntaxically wrong (a
pair of brackets can't follow a dot). However, your example does work
for me once I fix the syntax, and it prints hello but then hangs. I
can't explain the other results, though - possibly undefined behaviour
or more likely me not having much experience with the low-level thread
interface.
Use threading instead, like so:
import threading
def test():
print 'Test successful!'
def main():
thread = threading.Thread(target = test)
thread.start()
main()
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