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Python. Is it massively open to hacking?

Hi,
I am interested again in making an RTS, this time in Python.

How secure is Python? Maybe I don't know enough, but since it is interpreted, I'm concerned that my .py code can be simply copied from memory and hijacked by people? What security does Python guarantee in its interpreter?

Also, I have done competitive RTS since '97 and cheating is endemic in gaming. What might you suspect about the ease of a map hack, for example, into my code?

If my players can only play the game from my .py file location, can they do anything to, with it?
Is it thoroughly invulnerable? Hope so!
I was told my Java RTS was hackable

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Patrick Bogers

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James Hancock

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But, it is such a pity, because it is the emerging killer app of languages. Are you implying it can be locked down?

Well, let me compare. I previously did this project in Java. Could hijackers just as easily have hijacked my byte code, anyway?
Is Python completely universal now, also?

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Patrick Bogers

Hi again,

There are some pretty good decompilers for Java so yes, chances are there.
Python is becoming more and more universal now yes. Remember Python is open source and from this thinking not made for obfuscating.

Not a expert on this field but i have been reading about Cython which combines the power of Python and the programmabillity for C++, try it..

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Other questions I have asked on this have resulted in me holding the game state entirely on the server, and sending clients only their valid vision. This way hacking memory results in nothing, as only visible data is available. This should make my concerns null. As long as gameplay is tolerable, I'll be fine?

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Hacking my game code might be pointless, because I think I'll make the client game-screen-terminal-endpoint instantiate from a locked position in my folder / code, on my game server. So, hacking the code on the client side would be pointless if it instantiates every time only from an inaccessible class I specify. At any rate, my game is going to be played entirely on the server and clients will receive only vision related to their valid position, so hacking attempts of any kind would be futile, and amusing.