Phython as In-Game scripting language

[Ken Seehof]

Yes.  Threads work fine in regular python.  I don't know much about MT
and SP except that MT is good if you want a large number of threads and
you don't want to pay a lot of overhead for creating and destroying
them.

Shawn LeBlanc wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Just so I understand (and because my programmer teammates are
> asking me questions) is plain vanilla Python (no stackless or
> microthread) unable to run multiple scripts simultaneously?
>
> I'm thinking no because if Python did support running multiple
> scripts at the same time, there wouldn't be any need for
> SP or MT's. I just wanted a clear answer on that.
>
> Besides Crystal Space and Alice, has Python been used in any
> commercial games?
>
> I checked out Alice and it's pretty nice, but I wasn't able to
> get any information on how they implemented Python. It is neat
> in the way that my nephew could go and build 3D scenes, though.
>
> with milk and cookies,
> Shawn
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