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Tue Jul 20 16:15:27 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/046380.html

Chris King <colanderman at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:17:23 -0700, Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote:
>
>> As one of the people who has been defending this proposal, let me
>> now suggest that we just drop the idea.
>
> Agreed.  Thanks to everyone who helped defend it though, and thanks to
> others for providing obective feedback!
>
>> Your original change can be kept around as a patch that people can apply
>> for themselves if they want to. I expect that anyone who *really*
>> cared would be using stackless anyway.
>
> I think it would actually even be possible to turn it into an
> extension module, but that's a project for another day ;)

I think Armin Rigo has already done that with 'greenlets':

http://www.stackless.com/pipermail/stackless-dev/2004-March/000057.html

I don't pretend to understand...

Cheers,
mwh

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