How do stop or end a thread and then start it again?

Question

Here's something that I've tried for a snake game, but I get an error.

I did come up with another way,

(that is, redefining the thread every time the snake touches a coin)

but am still confused as to what the problem was, and how to solve it.

import playsound
import threading
import time

def coin():
    playsound.playsound('coin.mp3')

ding = threading.Tread(target=coin)

ding.start()

time.sleep(5)

ding.start()

RuntimeError: threads can only be started once

Answer 1

Try this, it works for me. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20021547/13300960

from pygame import mixer  # pip install pygame
import threading
import time


def coin():
    mixer.init()
    mixer.music.load(r"coin.mp3")
    mixer.music.play()


threading.Thread(target=coin).start()
time.sleep(5)

threading.Thread(target=coin).start()
time.sleep(5)