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  r79819 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-04-06 09:00:18 +0530 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

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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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diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index c996f42..178c8fd 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
             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: