[Python-Dev] Re: [Stackless] comments on PEP 219

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:12:02 -0600 (CST)


>>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> writes:

    Gordon> No one's asking them to give up __init__. Just asking them not
    Gordon> to transfer control from inside an __init__. There are good
    Gordon> reasons not to transfer control to another thread from within an
    Gordon> __init__, too.
 
Is this same restriction placed on all "magic" methods like __getitem__?  Is
this the semantic difference between Stackless and CPython that people are
getting all in a lather about?

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