Stackless python and microthreads

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Continuations (which are the coolest things since programming was 
invented) were forced out of Stackless Python around the end of version 
2.0 for political reasons IIRC.  Current Stackless doesn't have 
continuation support at all, so any version of micro-threads written to 
use continuations is just dead-on-arrival for the current version.  
Stackless 1.0 and 2.0 were only for pre-2.3 releases of Python AFAIK.

I would imagine that *someone* has written a Tasklets-based 
micro-threading implementation for the new Stackless (after all, 
micro-threading is AFAIK *the* major use-case for Stackless (save for 
those of us who like to play around with new modes of programming)) and 
you'll just need to poke around for that rewrite.

In a former life I got paid to work on extending the continuation-based 
micro-thread implementation... continuations are the most awesome toys 
you can imagine... we will all mourn their passing in time...

Good luck,
Mike

Matt Leslie wrote:
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> I'm trying to use microthreads under stackless python, since they 
> sound  like exactly what I am after,

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> python23.dll, python23.lib, python23.exp

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> I then downloaded the microthreads package from 
> http://willware.net:8080/uthread.py

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> ImportError: No module named continuation

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