Following on from my presentation at Free Play, I've stuck some notes about python game programming up on my website:

http://arrowtheory.com/doc/python_games.html

Might be a useful starting point for anyone interested in experimenting with what python has to offer in the way of sound/graphics/physics etc.

Simon.

Thanks. That's a useful collection of links.

I just started using Python to speed up development of a prototype. I didn't set out to use it. I was doing just fine with C++ then I happened to read something by Bruce Eckel (http://www.BruceEckel.com) (author of Thinking in C++) to the effect that he was using Python more and more, so I took a look at the language out of curiosity. These are still early days for me with Python, but there are a few things that stand out for me:

It is a very easy language to work with. The language doesn't get in the way of my thinking.

Python code is very readable.

It is very straightforward to interface it to C/C++.

Oh, and Jython. Very nice.

--- Rod