On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:00:04 +0300 (EEST), Ville Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would need to make some high-reliability software >running on Linux in an embedded system. Performance >(or lack of it) is not an issue, reliability is. > >The piece of software is rather simple, probably a >few hundred lines of code in Python. There is a need >to interact with network using the socket module, >and then probably a need to do something hardware- >related which will get its own driver written in >C. > >Threading and other more error-prone techniques can >be left aside, everything can run in one thread with >a poll loop. > >The software should be running continously for >practically forever (at least a year without a reboot). >Is the Python interpreter (on Linux) stable and >leak-free enough to achieve this? >
As a data point, I've had python programs run on linux for more than a year using both Python 2.1.3 and 2.2.3. These were network apps, with both client and server functionality, using Twisted. Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
