[Python-Dev] Stackless Python (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Jan 19 23:31:02 EST 2004

On Jan 19, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Josiah Carlson wrote:

I'm working on a project (http://www.cakem.net/) that involves networking. I have to do a lot of decoding of network data into an internal representation, and encoding internal representations into a network format.

The decoding part is going to present a problem, a problem that could easily be solved by continuations.

You could write your implementation of the network protocol using asyncore (medusa), Twisted, and/or PEAK... all of which are good at asynchronous "stuff" to varying degrees. PEAK has a bunch of new things that make it easy to write asynchronous-acting but synchronous-looking code using generators, these may only be in CVS though.

Anyway, I'm not a Python developer, just a user. I just wanted to add this to the things you consider when you decide what you intend to do next with Python. Continuations are important, and AFAIK, the stackless mod is the only way to get them.

I agree, but good luck convincing everyone that it's important enough to merge the fork (it's a fork of Python, not a module). BTW, Christian says the 2.3 branch of Stackless is pretty close to ready.

-bob

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