FAQ has outdated information about Stackless

[RamchandraApte]

BPO	16862
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @ezio-melotti

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labels = ['type-feature', 'docs']
title = 'FAQ has outdated information about Stackless'
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[RamchandraApte]

The FAQ says "It’s [Stackless] still experimental but looks very promising." AFAIK, Stackless is mature.

[RamchandraApte]

Sorry, link here, http://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#can-t-you-emulate-threads-in-the-interpreter-instead-of-relying-on-an-os-specific-thread-implementation .

[terryjreedy]

I think answer 2 should just say "An alternative is Stackless Python." and let interested people click the link. The entire second sentence should go, and I am not sure how much of the rest of the first is still correct, as Stackless has changed from when it was written.

[python-dev]

New changeset d2867c430333 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
bpo-16862: remove outdated statements about Stackless.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d2867c430333

New changeset b66049748535 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3':
bpo-16862: merge with 3.2.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b66049748535

New changeset 547dc3aa3e9a by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
bpo-16862: merge with 3.3.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/547dc3aa3e9a

New changeset 0f24c65fb7e5 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
bpo-16862: remove outdated statements about Stackless.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0f24c65fb7e5

[ezio-melotti]

Fixed, thanks for the report!