[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Persistent Python - a la Smalltalk

[Oleg Broytman]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:36:35PM +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Den 17.09.2011 17:22, skrev Nick Coghlan:
> >Given the challenges of just getting pickle to work properly for
> >explicit state transfer, I shudder at the prospect of trying to
> >implicitly freeze the entire interpreter state... (and that's even
> >before we get into the problem of programmers responding with
> >"What do you mean restarting my script doesn't reinitialise all
> >the state?") Cheers, Nick.
> 
> I am not sure what he means. But if he e.g. wants to save
> an interactive session with the command prompt, a la
> Matlab, then ipython will do what he wants.
> 
> Suspending and restarting a process on Unix is of course
> as easy as
> 
> $ kill -s STOP [pid]
> $ kill -s CONT [pid]
> 
> I don't know of any Windows equivalent. But virtual
> computers (e.g. VirtualBox, VMware) can be paused and
> restarted.

   The OP wants something like Emacs/TeX/Perl undump/unexec.

Oleg.
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