Re: [pygame] Scripting language

[Brandon N <kordova@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Farai,
  I prefer to not dismiss Python as simply a scripting language. :p

  Anyway, I am using Python as the development language for both the  
client and server in a project I am working on. Now, I want to be  
able to expose certain functionality for scripting other than the  
internal development kind I have been doing with Python. That is,  
users can write scripts that affect the behavior of their avatars in  
the world.

  I do not want to expose Python itself (at least, the same  
environment that the server is running in) because it seems  
relatively easy to reach outside of one's module in Python to muck  
with internal settings. I certainly cannot check for every piece of  
unsafe code and users will not have the server source so as to easily  
engineer such a thing, but it seems safer to just use something  
external and expose only the objects and methods I choose to allow.

Thanks,
  Brandon


On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Farai Aschwanden wrote:

> Hello Brandon
>
> Maybe I missunderstand you but Python IS a scripting language. What  
> is your intention using Python?
>
> Farai
>
>
> Am 18.12.2006 um 22:53 schrieb Brandon N:
>
> > Hello all,
> >   This is not strictly a pygame question though it does relate to  
> > my use of pygame in general. What have people used for scripting  
> > languages in Python? I suppose I could use Python itself but I do  
> > not want to expose anything through the use of eval or otherwise  
> > (currently I am doing just about this). While I do not want to  
> > write a language from scratch, I do have a simple Lisp  
> > implementation that I could expose.
> >
> > If this is way too off-topic I'll try to find another place to ask.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Brandon