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Also, how would 'someThread.join()' work if threads could be
restarted?

The current situation seems fine to me -- I can't think of a
use-case for this that isn't satisfied by either having an
idiomatic worker thread, or just simply creating a
completely new thread.

Presumably the rationale for wanting restartable threads is
performance, i.e. avoiding setup/teardown costs of threads
-- but this goal is better served by typical worker threads
blocking on a Queue.Queue anyway, i.e.:

    def worker(queue):
         while 1:
             job = queue.get()
             # ...

     q = Queue.Queue()
     t = threading.Thread(target=worker)

In my opinion, the current situation is fine and this
proposal isn't carefully thought out, so thsi bug can be
resolved as "won't fix".

[I seem to recall a bug very similar to this being rejected,
but I can't find it now]