# Welcome to pocketpy

pkpy is a lightweight(~15K LOC) Python 3.x interpreter for game scripting, written in C11.

It aims to be an alternative to lua for game scripting, with elegant syntax, powerful features and competitive performance. pkpy is extremely easy to embed via a single header file pocketpy.h, without external dependencies.

def is_prime(x):
  if x < 2:
    return False
  for i in range(2, x):
    if x % i == 0:
      return False
  return True

primes = [i for i in range(2, 20) if is_prime(i)]
print(primes)
# [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19]

pkpy should work on any platform with a C++17 compiler. These platforms are officially tested.

• Windows 64-bit
• Linux 64-bit / 32-bit
• macOS 64-bit
• Android 64-bit / 32-bit
• iOS 64-bit
• Emscripten 32-bit
• Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit

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• Github Sponsors
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pkpy v2.0 is a C11 project instead of C++17. All your existing code for v1.x won't work anymore.

We provide two API sets for v2.0, C-API and pybind11 API (C++17). If you are a C user, use the C-API. If you are a C++ user, use the pybind11 API.