One factor (really a minor complaint, but still something to consider...) thing that turned me away from Python was the fact that indentation and whitespace was part of the syntax, I''ve never seen anything like it in any other languages and honestly I think it could get in the way, especially with lots of nesting and stuff like that. I like the flexibilty of Lua''s syntax.

On the other hand a MAJOR con for Lua is the fact there are very few good tutorials out there...to really reach a good understanding about how to use it WELL I think you almost have to dig in and really digest the manual. Things to look into are ToLua (which someone mentioned above, I think)--it really helps to automate the busywork needed for classes and object oriented stuff. Also you might want to try downloading a wrapper that abstracts functions and hides the underlying API stack structure so that things are easier...or you could write your own, it''s not THAT hard

And if you get Lua up and running in your game, I''d definitely think about implementing a console so you can change variables on the fly.

I would have to side with LUA

Started with in about 2 weeks ago.
Used by Bioware for Baldurs Gate... best game ever!!

Python is "glue-code". Use it if you want to build an application using modules that can be written in C++ or whatever...

Lua is "extension-code". Use it if you want to add scripting capabilities to an engine or an application.

Pyton wants to be in the middle. Lua wants to be added to something.

Well that''s my 2 cents anyways...