any issues with long running python apps?

[Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet]

* John Nagle, on 10.07.2010 20:54:
> On 7/9/2010 12:13 PM, Les Schaffer wrote:
>> i have been asked to guarantee that a proposed Python application will
>> run continuously under MS Windows for two months time. And i am looking
>> to know what i don't know.
>>
>> The app would read instrument data from a serial port,
>
> If the device you're listening to is read-only, and you're just
> listening, make a cable to feed the serial data into two machines,
> and have them both log it. Put them on separate UPSs and in
> a place where nobody can knock them over or mess with them.

"The Ramans do everything in triplicate" - Old jungle proverb


Cheers,

- Alf

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