[Web-SIG] Alternative to threading.local, based on the stack

[Donovan Preston]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Using greenlets, there is always a current greenlet, so you can use  
> this for local storage.
>
> A library function can check if there is an active greenlet, and use  
> it as data key; otherwise it will use the current thread id.

Yes, this is exactly what I did in the  
wrap_threading_local_with_coro_local here:

http://donovanpreston.com:8888/eventlet/file/b6f9627e88df/eventlet/util.py

> However this will not work if you have an asynchronous server that  
> does not make use of greenlets.

Exactly, which is why I am proposing just standardizing something that  
does exactly what people use threading.local for, but whose  
implementation is pluggable by the wsgi server.

Donovan