BadStatusLine exception from zapi.item.get (ZabbixAPI/pyzabbix) when multithreading

[MadCowMoo]

I am running a multithreaded process against the ZabbixAPI (pyzabbix) in Python:
pool.apply_async(getLatestData, args = (item, ), callback = outputSenderLine)
Where "item" is set by a for-loop to either 'CPU Utilization Percent' or 'Memory Percentage Used'

In "getLatestData,"...

[gibbont]

Hey,

Been searching and can't seem to find out exactly how to find the [I]itemid[I] for a given item.

Currently using the pyzabbix module to access the API.

Apologies in advance if this is something obvious.

Thanks.