best python games?

[Paul Rudin]

alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> writes:

> Paul Rudin <paul.nos... at rudin.co.uk> wrote:
>> Apparently Eve Online is (stackless) python.
>
> I've dropped a ridiculous number of hours into EVE this year alone but
> I'd be very hesitant to ever mention "best" in relation to its
> coding :)
>
> It uses way too much floating point incorrectly, the in-game
> calculator gives the result of 878.53 - 874.20 as 4.3299999999999. I'm
> pretty sure this is also why occasionally you'll be left with 1 0.01m3
> unit out of 39,0000 with the storage container complaining it's full
> at 38,9999.99.
>

Floating point arithmetic isn't, in general, precise. I don't know the
game, so I can't comment on whether they should have chosen to ensure
precision in this context, but presumably that would make things a
little slower.