python suitability for large critical run forever apps

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3AB77CE4.78378862 at troikanetworks.com>,
Bruce Edge  <bedge at troikanetworks.com> wrote:
>
>Multi-threading, and mutual exclusion. Are these available, reliable,
>and debuggable?

Not entirely sure what you mean by "debuggable", but threads and locks
are available and reliable.  Note that there's no good facility in
Python for cleaning up a thread that goes haywire (e.g. stuck on some
kind of blocking call).
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