This is actually a gamengine/renderingengine on which u can develop games in python.
If u want to achieve high performance you'd rather use c++ and directly access libs like nvidias cg, ms directx or opengl...
for a "hello world", understanding how the 3d enviroment works and so on panda3d is a really good start.
cheers
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