Stackless Python PyPy, a self-hosting Python interpreter and JIT compiler. Although the whole Stackless is a separate distribution, its switching functionality has been successfully packaged as a CPython extension called greenlet. It is used by a number of libraries (e.g. gevent) to provide a "green threading" solution for CPython. Python since has received a native solution for green threads: await/async. Stackless is used extensively in the implementation of the "Eve Online" massively multiplayer online game as well as in IronPort's mail platform. Stackless Python Stackless Python, or Stackless, is a Python programming language interpreter, so named because it avoids depending on the
Python (programming language) Dictator For Life" (BDFL) a post from which he gave himself permanent vacation on July 12, 2018. Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000 with many major new features, including a cycle-detecting garbage collector and support for Unicode. Python 3.0 was released on 3 December 2008. It was a major revision of the language that is not completely backward-compatible. Many of its major features were backported to Python 2.6.x and 2.7.x version series. Releases of Python 3 include the codice_1 utility, which automates (at least partially) the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3. Python 2.7's end-of-life date