Suitability of python to specific project

[Jeff Epler]

If you want to run a program on a modern computer, you'll never be free
from "small bugs [that] appear on one computer and not on another".
You can't choose a programming language that somehow makes the OS not
flaky and prone to truly bizarre failures.

Back in the days of 4K basic (or on a modern microcontroller with just a
few kwords of program space), sure, but not when your OS, network stack,
windowing system, widget set, and language interpreter are all at least
a half a million lines big... when any major component could actually be
one of a half dozen or more similar but not identical parts (CPU, video
card, network interface, etc), and the performance or capacity of the
components might vary 10:1 or even 100:1 across machines you'd like
to support.

That said, I find my Python and Python+Tkinter programs to run well
on the systems I commonly use, mostly Linux but occasionally Windows.
On the other hand, my worst experiences have come when I've tried to
use Python with proprietary Microsoft components (MS Access)...

Jeff