A long time ago I had some fun with Minecraft Pi Edition. It was a cut down version of pocket edition exclusively for the Raspberry Pi, with an official Python API: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Pi_Edition

It's long discontinued, and apparently doesn't work on recent versions of Raspbian, but there is a current modded version which apparently still works (I haven't tested): https://gitea.thebrokenrail.com/minecraft-pi-reborn/minecraf...

There's also a (discontinued) Bukkit/Spigot plugin called RaspberryJuice which makes the same Python API work with a real Java edition server: https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/raspberryjuice

And there's also a currently maintained Bukkit/Spigot plugin called FruitJuice: https://github.com/jdeast/FruitJuice

Back in the day I made a basic version of Minesweeper which you could play inside Minecraft Pi Edition using the Python API: https://bitbucket.org/dwales/minesweeper-for-minecraft-pi-ed...

This blog showcased a bunch of Minecraft + Python projects: https://mcpipy.wordpress.com/

Also No Starch Press has a book which uses this Python API: https://nostarch.com/programwithminecraft

Mineflayer, a bot framework built in JavaScript, is also available in Python. [0]

Also a more easy language to look into for Minecraft would be SkriptLang [1]. It has a big community and is mostly easy to understand.

[0]: https://github.com/PrismarineJS/mineflayer/blob/master/examp... [1]: https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/

The (official, though by now long dead) raspberry pi version has python scripting. TBH that's almost all it has going for it, besides being open source