further down the line though, it looks like a better option (ironpython) for my needs vs compiling c# on the fly which i think is the only way to it.

From my perspective having iron python in .net means I might use it in a “real program”, because python is great for stuff for yourself, or install apps on unix, but unless you embed it, it never reaches an end user. I say all this and I do think of Blender, I think though it’s some compiled core running embedded python

basically anyway cpython never reaches end users beyond programming enthusiasts and academics using things like scipy, so it’s great it’s reliable but it’s not like I can use it anyway…. so I was hoping actually that .net python would be the defacto deployment python actually (and that maybe it would be defacto to deploy python)

so I really see the value in embedded python, if anything now I will need to figure how possibly I can make the python do less so players do not hyjack the game xD

say what anyone will about any what language I think many people really appreciate python to, you could make people use javascript after all!

IronPython is obviously going to have issues with extensions written in C, but those are platform-specific hacks anyway. Witness the problems of getting or compiling the right version of a particular extension for windows, when CPython dev mostly happens in the Linux world.

The point of IronPython is to have a modern dynamic language that can access (and be accessed from) the whole of the CLR-based ecosystem. My experience of this is very much the same as I’ve had with CPython. Stuff (i.e. .Net stuff) just works, first time, and the development experience is a joy.

As an example: I use WSDL.exe to create proxy stubs to the millions of SOA endpoints out there. Compile them into dlls with the C# compiler (CSC) and import them into IronPython for easy Web Service access. Try that in CPython with the the hopelessly incomplete SOA projects such as Suds et al.!

Another method of using Python without going the derivative route is using the following to plug Python into VS:

http://pytools.codeplex.com/

http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/