Re: [pygame] people hating python for game dev.

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 17, 2006, at 4:48 AM, andrew baker wrote:

> Python and Pygame are excellent for developing, but there are very  
> few commercial games currently that use sprite and tile graphics  
> compared to those who are using 3D engines.  Pygame is mainly for  
> the former, so that may explain a lot of reticence.
>
> But Python is actually one of the better "scripting" languages out  
> there.  Unlike Lua, it's main problem is that it is too powerful  
> and introspective, so it makes it difficult to sandbox (e.g., if  
> you're going to allow user-mods, it is more difficult to ensure  
> against malicious code).

It's simply not possible to sandbox arbitrary CPython code. Don't  
try, it's a dead end. The best you can do is start another process  
and communicate with it via a socket or something and try and use  
whatever means the OS has for process level protection.

-bob