Python reliability

[Paul Rubin]

Ville Voipio <vvoipio at kosh.hut.fi> writes:
> 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?

I would say give the app the heaviest stress testing that you can
before deploying it, checking carefully for leaks and crashes.  I'd
say that regardless of the implementation language.