Suitability of Python for daemon processes

[Ben Boeckel]

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Hi,

I am working on a project designed to mirror large, changing archives of
software in a manner that ensures data integrity and atomic updates using a
peer-to-peer protocol.

My team and I would like to design this software such that it provides a
suitable replacement for rsync.  As Fedora is among the leading
distributions, I would like to solicit your opinions on the implementation. 
We have designed much of the architecture, but have not implemented anything
yet.  One issue we wish to address currently is that of interpreted vs.
compiled languages.

My team and I would like to know whether the community would be accepting of
such a project (which includes a daemon) if it were written in Python rather
than C or C++.  If so, it would greatly simplify the implementation and
allow it to be more robust.  Python's built-in libraries and facilities
provide much of the path and network manipulation that the daemon requires. 
Using the Python standard libraries allows us to rely upon a well-tested
base and focus on higher-level issues.

What are your opinions, as system administrators, on using Python for
long-running daemon processes when the developers are explicitly mindful of
memory considerations?

- --Ben Boeckel
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