Lua is a nice, small, fast language that is great for many of my needs in 
extending Scite. I completely understand its benefits.
 
However, after doing many cool things with Lua, I think it would be even more 
awesome if Python was embedded (not in the main build, because I understand 
that it is not as lightweight as Lua). Maybe even a subset of Python could be 
embedded without as many modules.
 
I'm not sure of the scope of this project but I know it will be not be quick. I 
guess my question is how impossible this is :), and how to start. Is anyone 
else interested in this or willing to help?
 
My main reasons for Python as an alternative to Lua are:
Batteries included. More features. Easier to connect to os, work with files, 
strings. More maintainable IMHO. More of a mainstream language, reuse of 
previous code is possible.  
 
I know one can add extensions to Lua, but this isn't so convinient, and I'd 
like to be able to use Python code without porting it to Lua. (Or opening a 
python process via "python myscript.py").
 
-Ben
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