Python: language moratorium is lifted

Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by anonymoushn on Saturday February 26, 2011 @06:53AM (#2265361)

This is somewhat disappointing. Python's lack of full-fledged coroutines is most of what keeps me using Lua.

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by dalke on Saturday February 26, 2011 @08:03AM (#2265433)

And you don't want to use Stackless Python because ... ?

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by yummyfajitas on Saturday February 26, 2011 @08:51AM (#2265518)

I was going to suggest that Stackless is dead, given that I haven't heard any news about it.

But that would have been foolish of me: http://zope.stackless.com/Members/rmtew/News%20Archive/3.1.3

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by TillE on Saturday February 26, 2011 @10:26AM (#2265696)

As far as I know, they haven't developed any significant new features (does it need any?) in a long long time, so in that sense it's not an "active" project. But they're usually quick to port their patchset to each new Python version.

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by dalke on Sunday February 27, 2011 @07:02AM (#2267704)

It adds coroutines to Python. What more do you need? It runs every other Python package, it tracks new Python releases perfectly, which means its "significant new features" are identical to Python's significant new features.

What would an "active" version of the project look like?

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by SoftwareMaven on Saturday February 26, 2011 @03:20PM (#2266418)

There is also continued work on coroutines (based on Stackless) in Pypy: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/stackless.html

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by anonymoushn on Saturday February 26, 2011 @06:43PM (#2266853)

Thanks, I'll check this out in addition to stackless.

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by njharman on Saturday February 26, 2011 @01:30PM (#2266142)

stackless is actively used by mmorpg EvE Online

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by Locke1689 on Saturday February 26, 2011 @03:38PM (#2266466)

Meh, I could nitpick at the language all day but I still use it. Call/cc probably isn't happening anytime soon.

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Re:Python: language moratorium is lifted by sigzero on Saturday February 26, 2011 @12:11PM (#2265923)

So keep using Lua? Langauges choices are all about that...choice.

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