why does python sucks so much for games?

[chrisj1968]

My wife and I use IMVU just for fun and we have friends all over the world on their. but I hate the use of python. it is absolutely abhorred. I've often asked them why they don't move to a microsoft engine for the entire game.

can anyone explain to me why python sucks so bad for games? to my untrained eye, it just doesn't have the power to be a viable game language

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[The_Decryptor Veteran]

What could you do with .NET that you couldn't do with Python?

[Andre S. Veteran]

can anyone explain to me why python sucks so bad for games? to my untrained eye, it just doesn't have the power to be a viable game language

That's funny, Python is used in plenty of games including widely known commercial ones (CivIV, Battlefield 2 for example). http://wiki.python.o...oin/PythonGames

Python is built for ease of use and readability above all else and isn't fit to writing the kind of bit-twiddling code that lies at the heart of a high-performance game engine. But it definitely can be used, and is used, to implement much of the game logic.

Perhaps you should explain why you loathe Python so much.

[chrisj1968]

then maybe it's the coding for the game. it crashes alot. but they never seem to get the darn thing fixed. It was like they fix one issue but then 5 more spring up.

perhaps whoever coded the game didn't do too well.

[chrisj1968]

I guess whoever coded the game did a horrible job. it's not like they don't have money, they make it hand over fist. It just seems like their coding is a mess.

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[Eric Veteran]

Using something like Python for scripting a game requires more care in the actual script since it's not a strongly-typed language. If your interface isn't well-implemented with parameter checking it's very easy to send a function a string instead of an integer and have the value miscast during game operation.