python suitability for large critical run forever apps

[Cary O'Brien]

In article <3AB7986A.206EFB37 at downright.com>,
Doug Fort  <dougfort at downright.com> wrote:
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>Our website loadtesting application http://www.stressmy.com has backend
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>agents that 'run forever'. (Actually, we're doing frequent upgrades,
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>so most agents get restarted at least once a week, but we've
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>never had anything fail from memory or resource leaks).
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>I find multithreaded apps much easier to develop and debug in
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>Python than in C/C++ or Java.  However, I'm becoming convinced
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>that it's better to use select() than threads for waiting on I/O.
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Could you elaborate on your reasons?  I'm a bit leery about threads
too, but so far they seem to work, although I hate having all those
locks all over the place.  I really miss the tcl event-driven model
with fileevent and after.  Oh well.

-- cary