[Stackless] how to enable stackless

[Christian Tismer]

Johann Höchtl wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm impressed about stackless and want to know more on how i can use it. 
> I downloaded the latest dll.zip (Sept. 15) and fired python up. I saw a 
> message that now the stackless python dll is in use.
> 
> I tried the unlimited recursion feature using the ackermann's function 
> but was rather disappointed that it failed with the same error massage 
> as the regular cpython version (maximum recursion depth reached).
> 
> What else do i have to specify to enable stackless?
> 
> Is there up-to-date help available?

Not yet.
The system module has a function enable_stackless and also
one called setslicinginterval.
Please check their __doc__s for details.

Particularlz for deep recursions, I'd use something like

import sys
sys.enable_stackless(1)
sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.maxint)

ciao - chris

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