[Pythonmac-SIG] Using a unix Python with a MacPython Lib tree

John A. Miller jmillr@umich.edu
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:53:24 -0400 (EDT)


I really don't know if this is relevant, an apologies if it isn't, but
this discussion reminds me of an effort that may be related: Stackless
Python: A Python Implementation That Does Not Use The C Stack:

http://www.stackless.com/

with the main explanation here:

http://www.stackless.com/spcpaper.htm

HTH

John Miller


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jonathan Wight wrote:

> On 04/03/2001 13:47, "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU> wrote:
> 
> This would have been incredibly simplified if I could have registered my own
> C callbacks as the 'destination' of stdout/stderr. Unfortunately the Python
> source code is pretty dependent on the stdio functions and you'll see FILE *
> littered throughout the Python code.
> 
> This would be a pretty big change to the Python source code though akin to
> the 'great renaming' of a few years ago.