[Python-Dev] threading issue: preventing starting twice

[Aahz]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004, Russell E. Owen wrote:
>
> First of all, the documentation only says it is an error to start a 
> thread more than once. It does not say which exception is raised. On my 
> system I find it is AssertionError. So...is that going to be true on all 
> systems? Is the test based on "assert", in which case it will go away 
> for optimized code (and then what happens)?
> 
> Anyway, if it is always AssertionError, I'd like to get the docs updated 
> to say that.

File a doc bug.
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