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authorSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-04-06 03:23:33 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-04-06 03:23:33 (GMT)
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Fix Issue8262 - changing RuntimeError wording to "Threads can only be started once"
-rw-r--r--Lib/threading.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index c6fb2da..06fdfc1 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
if not self.__initialized:
raise RuntimeError("thread.__init__() not called")
if self.__started.is_set():
- raise RuntimeError("thread already started")
+ raise RuntimeError("threads can only be started once")
if __debug__:
self._note("%s.start(): starting thread", self)
with _active_limbo_lock: