[Visualpython-users] Philosophical question

[Dethe E. <de...@an...>]

Hi folks,

I've got visual playing nice with Python 2.0 now, great work.  I think
requiring users to uninstall Python was a big hurdle earlier, glad to see it
installs into the standard environment now.

I'm curious why VPython is written as a C-extension, rather than on top of
pyOpenGL.  Is it strictly a performance thing?  Since pyOpenGL is already a
C-extension, the performance shouldn't be a problem, but that could be my
own ignorance speaking.  I'm mainly curious because the more an extension
relys on C the less portable it becomes, and as a pedagical tool I prefer
Python code to C code.

Awaiting enlightenment...

--Dethe