Mailman 3 - Python-Dev

coroutines vs. continuations vs. threads
by rushing＠nightmare.com May 18, 1999

May 18, 1999

Aaron Watters writes: > Frankly, I think I thought I understood this once but now I know I > don't. 8^) That's what I said when I backed into the idea via medusa a couple of years ago. > How're continuations more powerful than coroutines? And why can't > they be implemented using threads (and semaphores etc)? My understanding of the original 'coroutine' (from Pascal?) was that it allows two procedures to 'resume' each other. The classic coroutine example is the 'samefringe'… [View More]

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RE: [Python-Dev] coroutines vs. continuations vs. threads
by Ken Manheimer May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

Jeremy Hylton: > I have to admit that I'm a bit unclear on the motivation for all > this. As Gordon said, the state machine approach seems like it would > be a good approach. If i understand what you mean by state machine programming, it's pretty inherently uncompartmented, all the combinations of state variables need to be accounted for, so the number of states grows factorially on the number of state vars, in general it's awkward. The advantage of going with what functional folks … [View More]

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'stackless' python?
by rushing＠nightmare.com May 15, 1999

May 15, 1999

[list has been quiet, thought I'd liven things up a bit. 8^)] I'm not sure if this has been brought up before in other forums, but has there been discussion of separating the Python and C invocation stacks, (i.e., removing recursive calls to the intepreter) to facilitate coroutines or first-class continuations? One of the biggest barriers to getting others to use asyncore/medusa is the need to program in continuation-passing-style (callbacks, callbacks to callbacks, state machines, etc...). … [View More]

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My (possibly delusional) book project
by David Beazley May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Although this is a little off-topic for the developer list, I want to fill people in on a new Python book project. A few months ago, I was approached about doing a new Python reference book and I've since decided to proceed with the project (after all, an increased presence at the bookstore is probably a good thing :-). In any event, my "vision" for this book is to take the material in the Python tutorial, language reference, library reference, and extension guide and squeeze it into a … [View More]

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Python for Small Systems patch
by Ivan Porres Paltor May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Python for Small Systems is a minimal version of the python interpreter, intended to run on small embedded systems with a limited amount of memory. Since there is some interest in the newsgroup, we have decide to release an alpha version of the patch. You can download the patch from the following page: http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python There is no documentation about the changes, but I guess that it is not so difficult to figure out what Raul has been doing. There are some simple … [View More]

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New mailing list: python-bugs-list
by Barry A. Warsaw May 3, 1999

May 3, 1999

I've been using Jitterbug for a couple of weeks now as my bug database for Mailman and JPython. So it was easy enough for me to set up a database for Python bug reports. Guido is in the process of tailoring the Jitterbug web interface to his liking and will announce it to the appropriate forums when he's ready. In the meantime, I've created YAML that you might be interested in. All bug reports entered into Jitterbug will be forwarded to python-bugs-list(a)python.org. You are invited to … [View More]

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LLNL C++ as base for Python 2?
by skip＠mojam.com April 28, 1999

April 28, 1999

Have we been talking about Python 2 or Python 1.6? If we're talking about Python 2, has anyone given a serious look at the LLNL gang's C++/Python stuff? If I recall Paul Dubois' talk at the last conference, it sounded like their work made it much easier to implement extension modules. Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/ skip(a)mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/ 518-372-5583

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Re: [Python-Dev] numpy
by Jack Jansen April 28, 1999

April 28, 1999

> [...] Guido has offered in-principle support for moving > some of the Win32 stuff into the core - particularly the Registry stuff and > the native Window Handle support... I think it would be nice to put all the stuff that is shared between modules (I think that's only PyWinTypes, but who am I to think I have a clue about the windows port:-) into the core. I just did the same for MacPython, and it makes life a whole lot easier. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution … [View More]

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numpy
by David Ascher April 28, 1999

April 28, 1999

What are the thoughts on NumPy integration into the core? --David

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Public or private python-dev archives?
by Guido van Rossum April 27, 1999

April 27, 1999

In a private mail, Greg Stein suggested that the python-dev archives should be restricted to the members of the list. I prefer to make them public, but I won't want to impose this on others without discussion. So I've made the archives private for the time being while we discuss this meta-issue. (Also, the existence of the list isn't announced by mailman on its listinfo page.) Here's my argument for open archives. I don't think that we have anything to hide from the public -- I think of us … [View More]

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