I wouldn't go that far as to avoid it altogether. Python makes a great glue language even in applications where performance is important. You can write all the

I wouldn't go that far as to avoid it altogether. Python makes a great glue language even in applications where performance is important. You can write all the performance critical stuff in C and then glue it together in Python. It's a pretty common approach and it works really well. Game engines often do this where the main engine is in C++ with scripting in Lua.