[Python-Dev] Re: threading issue: preventing starting twice

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <20040225194837.GA5220 at panix.com>,
 Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> 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.

Done. 
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=904498&group_id
=5470&atid=105470>.

-- Russell