Alternatives to Stackless Python?

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Fri Sep 23 00:14:56 EDT 2005


binarybana at gmail.com wrote:
> After recently getting excited about the possibilities that stackless
> python has to offer
> (http://harkal.sylphis3d.com/2005/08/10/multithreaded-game-scripting-with-stackless-python/)
> and then discovering that the most recent version of stackless
> available on stackless.com was for python 2.2 I am wondering if
> Stackless is dead/declining and if so, are there any viable
> alternatives that exist today?
> 
> I found LGT http://lgt.berlios.de/ but it didn't seem as if the
> NanoThreads module had the same capabilites as stackless.
> 

See also greenlets, which work with regular cpython:
http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/greenlet.html
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/07/py-lib-gems-greenlets-and-pyxml.html

You'll probably need to get it via an svn client (such as tortoisesvn on 
windows): http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/getting-started.html



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