Re: [pygame] C/C++ and Python

[Toni Alatalo <antont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yanom Mobis kirjoitti:
> I've heard some games are made with C/C++ and Python together. Where 
> does Pygame fit into this?

Pygame is written in c, to wrap another c written library, SDL. Python 
itself is written in c too.

So in a way if you write a game using Python, using Pygame, your game is 
already using c & python together.

The idea is that the cpu intensive things, like in case of Pygame the 
drawing operations, are done in native code. So the basic libraries that 
Python, SDL and Pygame provide you should cover the basic cpu intensive 
things so that your own code can be in Python only and be fast enough.

If you encounter something where need to do some own code for which 
Python is too slow, you can always port that part to c and use that from 
the Python game, like you would already be using the pre-existing modules.

Also for numerical processing of arrays like bitmaps you can use the 
Pygame surfarray module to get to use numeric python (numpy), which 
enables you to define array operations in Python so that they are 
executed using the fast optimized native libraries.

~Toni