Python game code

[Neil Toronto]

What sort of interest is there for an option to code the game (not the 
engine) entirely in Python?

Advantages:

- MUCH easier to code - Python is brain-dead simple, so that even 
artists without programming background could make simple changes

- Could provide hooks to run custom Python code from just about anywhere 
(and mods could even inject their own hooks) - basically, you could mod 
the game without replacing the game files, or run multiple mods 
simultaneously

- Could run Python code directly from the console to debug

- Could create very complex game logic very easily

I know this is going to rub some C coders the wrong way - but at a 
higher level of abstraction, where you don't have to think about 
low-level operations like memory allocation and pointers, you can churn 
out very complex stuff very quickly. Of course, there's a price:

Disadvantages:

- It's slower than C


I'm thinking of broader applications of the engine than just Quake 3 the 
game.

Neil