Hi, Tim Rau wrote: > I'm working on a game, and I'd like players to be able to define thier > ships with scripts. Naturally, I don't want to give them the entire > program as thier romping ground. I would like to invoke a seperate > interpreter for these files, and give it a limited subset of the > functions in my game. What is the best way to achieve this effect?
Depends. If you are concerned about security, this will be hard to achieve in Python. I imagine that this could be related to cheating prevention. If you are more concerned about namespace polution and making only a well defined API available to the scripts, go the module-import way and hand some API object over, either through an initialisation function or by injecting it into the module namespace, as Arnaud suggested. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
