Unix and Linux users

Binaries are not provided for any of the various versions of Linux or Unix, or for any platforms they may be running on. Please use the SVN repository to compile your own copy of Stackless Python. The directory structure follows that of the main Python repository.

Mac OS X users

• stackless-2.5.2-macosx2008-02-27.dmg (19MB) (md5 checksum)

• stackless-2.5.1-macosx2007-06-20.dmg (19MB) (md5 checksum)

Microsoft Windows users

Complete installations of Stackless Python are not provided for all versions of Python. If this is the case for the version you are interested in, to get it installed you can follow these steps:

1. Download the appropriate official Python distribution.
2. Download the zip archive provided here.
3. Install the official distribution.
4. Extract the zip archive into the directory where you installed the official distribution.

Microsoft Windows users - Earlier versions of Python

Complete installations of Stackless Python are not provided. Instead the dlls that comprise the Python runtime with the Stackless changes built in, are. These should replace the files with the same names in your Python installation and are all that is needed for you to obtain a working version of Stackless Python.

There are two ways which you can do this:

1. Place the Stackless dlls in your PATH before the standard ones.
2. Directly replace the dlls in your Python installation. If you installed an official installer based Python installation from python.org, you can find the dlls in your WINDOWS directory under the system32 sub-directory. In Windows XP Professional, this will be WINDOWS\system32. Even if the WINDOWS directory is named differently in your version of Microsoft Windows, they will most likely be installed in the system32 sub-directory within it.