ping multiple Ips with python

[.d.hos]

bear with me as I'm fairly new to python -

We're trying to monitor various IP responses via a ping command, and
record errors to a database. we have about 350 IP numbers that need
this sort of logging, and walking through the IP sequentially seems to
take quite awhile.

I was wondering if there was a python module or utility that could
ping multiple IPs in a multithreaded fashion? or, any ideas how one
might code this functionality?

any ideas or insight welcome....thanks in advance .d.hos