Fake threads (was [Python-Dev] ActiveState & fork & Perl)

[David Ascher]

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Tim Peters wrote:

> As Guido pointed out, the API provided by Generator.py is less restrictive
> than any that can be built with the "one frame" flavor of generator
> ("resumable function").  Were you able to make enough sense of the long
> discussion that ensued to guess whether the particular use you had in mind
> required Generator.py's full power?  If you couldn't tell, post the baroque
> details & I'll tell you <wink>.

I'm pretty sure the use I mentioned would fit in even the simplest version
of a generator.  As to how much sense I made of the discussion, let's just
say I'm glad there's no quiz at the end.  I did shudder at the mention of
unmentionables (male public displays of affection -- yeaach!), yodel at
the mention of Lord Greystoke swinging among stack branches and chuckled
at the vision of him being thrown back in a traceback (ouch! ouch! 
ouch!, "most painful last"...).

--david