On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Anoop Thomas Mathew <atmb4u@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I was wondering whether we can have a feature like, portable continuations (as present in Scala 2.8) is possible in Python. It is a feature, by which executions can be stopped in between, and transferred to another computer and resume the process. This is a standard feature in scala 2.8. Something similar is present in Stackless Python, but it doesn't support 'Portable'. I am not sure how can we do that. But, if it is possible, and if some one can throw some light how to achieve that, I am ready to volunteer to dig deeper.

Hi Anoop, Take a look at the 'greenlets' extension module (which has the same portability limitations as Stackless, since that's where it came from), the 'cofunctions' PEP (PEP 3152), and the extensive discussions regarding the latter in the archives of this list. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Anoop Thomas Mathew <atmb4u@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I was wondering whether we can have a feature like, portable continuations (as present in Scala 2.8) is possible in Python. It is a feature, by which executions can be stopped in between, and transferred to another computer and resume the process. This is a standard feature in scala 2.8. Something similar is present in Stackless Python, but it doesn't support 'Portable'. I am not sure how can we do that. But, if it is possible, and if some one can throw some light how to achieve that, I am ready to volunteer to dig deeper.

Hi Anoop, Take a look at the 'greenlets' extension module (which has the same portability limitations as Stackless, since that's where it came from), the 'cofunctions' PEP (PEP 3152), and the extensive discussions regarding the latter in the archives of this list. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia