Possible to create game using BP + Python instead of BP + C++?

Development Pipeline & Plugins Editor Scripting
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Hi all,

I am proficient in Python as I use it daily for work (analytics). I have been using Godot to develop a 2D single player platforming game as GDScript is ‘similar’ to Python. I do not know C++ at all, and am not really looking to learn as I don’t need it for work. I am looking to move to UE due to the massive amount of features that the engine provides over a smaller engine like Godot (even though Godot is very good in my opinion). I have heard while you can technically create a ‘whole game’ just using BP, especially for a single player game, you are bound to run into scenarios where you will need to code in c++. I haven’t even started using UE yet so pardon if this question is asked often or has an obvious answer, but instead of coding those scenarios in C++, can you code it in Python? I am much more comfortable in Python. Are there any major limitations if you are able to code in python?

Thanks

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Our Python plugin is designed for editor scripting, and won’t build in a non-editor configuration as it requires editor-only meta-data to generate the glue bindings.

That said, it could work at runtime if you had a UHT plugin to dump out a blob of all the meta-data that the plugin needs, but you’d still be limited to only having a Python runtime for desktop platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux).

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There are public Python plugins on GitHub (runtime, not editor) created by users.

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Python is more flexible than c++ and it has the capability to overcome c++, all that you can do with c++ can also be done with python and rather in much lesser amount of effort.