Videogame scripting

[Rainer Deyke]

"Marco Iannaccone" <marciann at tin.it> wrote in message
news:Rc9j6.17279$LM4.229776 at twister1.tin.it...
> Do you think Python is a good scripting language for videogames.

Yes.

> I wanna use
> it for both Windows and Linux. Is it easy enough to program it, and to use
> it with C and C++?

Yes.  Interfacing with C++ can be difficult if you use C++ exceptions, but
there are wrapper libraries that take care of that for you.

> Is it fast?

It is much slower than C/C++.  Depending on what you do with it, this may or
may not be significant.  Compared with other scripting languages, it's not
bad.


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