Hello all,
Above all I am a game developer and I want to make multi player games.
For my first trick I want to make a game that is building related, with
a map and such.
For the map I was thinking of using a dict and running along those lines.
My question is, is python really the way to go for game servers?
I remember, long ago, running a script that went along the lines of:
import shutil
import time
while 1:
f=open("backup.count_file.txt","r");
num=int(f.read())
f.close()
f=open("backup/count_file.txt","w");
f.write(str(num+1));
f.close()
shutil.copy("my_file.txt", "my_file.txt.backup."+str(num))
time.sleep(900)
After running for a day, this had to be killed because it sucked up more
memory than anything I'd ever seen before.
This is obviously not ideal.
So I wonder, is it something about my code up there?
Should I be freeing something or other?
The game server would have to, obviously, process messages from clients,
perhaps keep track of running tasks through a loop of times such as:
timevar=time.time()
for x in tasks:
if(x[0]>timevar):
#task complete, do code
I don't mind too much if its using a bit of memory, but, if python is
just going to leak all over the place and I'm better off learning c or c
sharp or something, then I'd like to know!
Thanks a lot for any help.
Nate
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