Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: stacklesslib
Version: 1.0.3
Summary: Standard Stackless Python supporting functionality
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stacklesslib
Author: Richard Tew
Author-email: richard.m.tew@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: stacklesslib
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        Stackless Python by itself only provides a basic set of functionality,
        allowing either cooperative or preemptive scheduling of microthreads
        within the same operating system thread.  This framework provides the
        additional support that anyone developing an application using Stackless
        Python will end up eventually implementing.
        
        The most useful aspect is the monkey-patching support.  Much of the
        code in the standard library does blocking operations, or perhaps
        is even written to make use of threads.  If the monkey-patching is
        installed, then these blocking operations are converted to be
        "Stackless friendly".  Threads will actually be tasklets.  Operations
        that block the operating system thread (and therefore the Stackless
        scheduler) will be converted to simply block the tasklet that is
        standing in for the threads that would otherwise be used.
        
        Even if an application developer does not wish to make use of
        monkey-patching, they can still make use the framework provided
        so that they do not need to implement the standard supporting
        functionality themselves.
        
        Useful supporting functionality:
        
         * Concurrency-related primitives corresponding to those that the
           standard library threading module provides for real threads.
         * Ability to put tasklets to sleep for a set amount of time.
         * Ability to specify timeouts for blocking operations.
        
        Changes
        -------
        
        Version 1.0.3:
        
         * All previous versions had broken eggs.  This was because the manifest was not
           correctly configured to recursively include the source directory.
         
Keywords: microthreads,coroutines,stackless,monkeypatching
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Other Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
