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June Kim junaftnoon at nospamplzyahoo.com
Mon Nov 6 00:13:42 EST 2000 
Thank you so much; it's wonderful. That is exactly what I've been
waiting for!

Best regards

- June

ps. Now I feel some more stackless myself.

"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.973477348.27352.python-list at python.org...
> I have put up 6 pages of information about stackless at
>
> http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/stackless.html
>
> The first page attempts to give a conceptual overview of
> stackless. Notice I said "conceptual" - I make no attempt to
> be technically accurate!
>
> Next follow 4 pages of tutorial. Mainly this is a discussion of
> implementing generators and coroutines through the
> continuation module. It includes rewrites of 2 samples that
> Tim used to demonstrate his coroutines-implemented-via-
> threads madness.
>
> Finally, the last page is about SelectDispatcher, which is kind
> of Medusa using coroutines. Included as a demonstration is a
> full FTPServer that will run on Windows. This is not just demo
> quality code - it's at the core of a couple commercial apps I'm
> doing for clients, at least one of which will make something of
> a splash in its (large, prosperous) industry. SelectDispatcher
> and friends are released under the McMillan Enterprises 4 line
> license (do what thou wilt; maintain the copyright notice; no
> warranty).
>
> While these are not the PEPs I owe on stackless, they are
> part of the background material for those PEPs, particularly in
> demonstrating why some of us are so interested in seeing
> these facilities within core Python.
>
> I apologize in advance to Christian for any misunderstandings
> or misinformation these pages may contain.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - Gordon
>
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