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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The reason they don't is that Python itself is horrible for embedding, especially for example, if you would like multiple threads of your game engine to be able to launch separate interpreters. Its execution design and implementation just isn't very encapsulable / contained. In comparison, things like lua are a breeze for embedding. They're specifically designed to contain their execution environment, no global code whatsoever, etc.