Re: [pygame] Use of PyScheme for game projects

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:15 PM, andrew baker wrote:

> I've been pondering alternative methods to allowing unknown persons  
> to submit game code in my game engine, e.g. player created levels,  
> characters, monsters and items, but of course sandboxing Python  
> code is nontrivial.  I've hit upon using a Scheme interpreter in  
> Python to potentially solve this problem, with a possible variation  
> on parsing to make the Scheme code appear more Pythonic.  Has  
> anyone had similar success or failure or a better understanding of  
> Scheme than me who explain why this is A) awesome or B) teh suck.
>
> And, yes, I know how daft it may seem to embed another interpreted  
> language inside an interpreted language, but I'm expecting rather  
> small Scheme patterns, and Python in its current state simply  
> cannot be sandboxed, and I think I might actually hate C++. :D

If you want to use a language with a familiar syntax to users I'd  
probably lean towards embedding the SpiderMonkey JavaScript  
implementation, rather than trying to make Scheme look like Python.

-bob