What does Python offer?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: Solosnake
> 
> 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?
> Why would it be useful to a games programmer?

Obviously. Blade of Darkness uses it ...

http://www.python.org/
http://www.python.org/doc/Newbies.html
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
http://www.python.org/doc/Comparisons.html
http://www.pygame.org/
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/

For (potentially) controlling/modifying other games, you will need to know
about extending and embedding, but I suggest you get some straight python
under your belt first ;)

Tim Delaney