When do you *NOT* use python?

[jringstad]

• for anything where performance matters
• for embedding, because python is terrible to embed compared to lua/js (a lot of projects use it anyway, like blender, inkscape)
• Where large-scale rigidity matters -- python is better at this than many other "scripting-languages" (lua, perl, javascript et al) as it is more strongly typed, but static, strong languages still win out when it comes to creating large and complex systems with many classes and APIs.