Python reliability

[Peter Hansen]

John Waycott wrote:
> I wrote a simple Python program that acts as a buffer between a 
> transaction network and a database server, writing the transaction logs 
> to a file that the database reads the next day for billing. The simple 
> design decoupled the database from network so it wasn't stresed during 
> high-volume times. The two systems (one for redundancy) that run the 
> Python program have been running for six years.

Six years?  With no downtime at all for the server?  That's a lot of 
"9s" of reliability...

Must still be using Python 1.5.2 as well...

-Peter