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  r79817 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-04-06 08:53:33 +0530 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix Issue8262 - changing RuntimeError wording to "Threads can only be started once"
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Lib/threading.py

@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
             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: