What does Python offer?

[Andrei Kulakov]

In article <ad216r$lol$1 at news8.svr.pol.co.uk>, Solosnake wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have beome curious about Python after playing a game called 'Severance -
> Blade of Darkness', which uses python scripts. I know very little about the
> language. I am a C++ programmer, and would like to ask the Python community
>:
> 
> What is unique or special about Python?
>

On one hand, it's very high-level (like perl or basic), so that
it's very easy to quickly write a prototype; on the other hand,
it is very scalable in the sense that you can write huge programs
that perl and basic would be too "small" for. As someone said..
it bridges the gap between scripting and programming languages.

> Why would it be useful to a games programmer?
>
You can quickly prototype a game in python and then decide
whether you want to re-write it in C++ and most likely you'll
find python is fast enough to use for most of the game except for
the most expensive graphics code.

> Could it be used for allowing users to customize games, eg reprogramming AI
> bots etc?
>
Certainly!

 - Andrei

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