So what's this python thing?

[popman98]

Yeah.
Python.
Is it easy to learn? Is it possible to make games in it? (Like, games. Not 3D games, but not stuffty poop games.)

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[Kingdaro]

they have libraries for making games, yes, like pygame

only speaking for myself here, the language itself is pretty easy to learn. what's required to actually do most of the things i can do with love2d seems very unnecessary.

if you're not looking for anything complicated i'd recommend lua and love2d, but that's just me

love pretty much does most of the stuff automatically that with other engines you'd need to do manually but it doesn't hold your hand in a way that makes it so you can only do certain things.

it's like that perfect balance between flexibility and simplicity that i love.

[popman98]

Okay, sounds good.
So can I get it to work for mac?
Do I get an eclipse plugin or something?

[Byteswarm]

Python's really only good as an introductory language, and you need to download or import an absurd amount of libraries to really do anything with it. It's also slow. Really slow.
After you get done with python, sepples your way to freedom.

Okay, sounds good.
So can I get it to work for mac?
Do I get an eclipse plugin or something?

You can either use Notepad++ or IDLE.
IDLE comes with the recent python installations, and it features a highlighted code editor and a way to launch the interpreter to test your code.

I don't use Eclipse so I don't know.

check it yourself, you lazy prick  
please don't be a hipster; get the 3.X versions.

[Kingdaro]

i'd honestly just go with notepad++ unless you're planning on making the next skyrim, don't overcomplicate things.

if you feel that you would need certain features find ways to add on to what you already have.