Actually, come to think of it I meant to say (with tongue in cheek)
"pygame.init_all_but(XXX)"
not
"from pygame import all but xxx"
but what you are suggesting is probably a good idea too (I guess, I'm just
starting with pygame).
On 8/26/11 10:05 AM, "Lenard Lindstrom" <le...@telus.net> wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>I have experimented with lazy importing of Pygame modules. Modules are
>only loaded when directly accessed. It does decrease Pygame startup
>time. I am considering adding it to Pygame 1.9.2. If there is interest I
>can make it a priority. The main roadblock was making lazy imports
>optional. I think I have solved that.
>
>Lenard Lindstrom
>
>On 26/08/11 09:46 AM, John Jameson wrote:
>> Yes, thanks, this did help on one little program so far. If I knew
>> which package(s) were really slow at loading then it'd be great if
>> there were a python command like "from pygame import all but xxx" ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Jack Anderson <corporalmust...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:corporalmust...@gmail.com>>
>> Reply-To: <pygame-users@seul.org <mailto:pygame-users@seul.org>>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:30:35 -0700
>> To: <pygame-users@seul.org <mailto:pygame-users@seul.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [pygame] very slow pygame.init() under Snow Leopard
>>
>> Init() from my understanding is just a shortcut to call all of the
>> initialization functions on the main pygame packages, it is likely a
>> specific pygame package which is causing the slowdown, try calling the
>> init() functions on only the packages you need, i.e. display, mixer,
>> etc. And see if that helps. At the very least, we'll have a better
>> idea of which packages are causing slowdown.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, John Jameson <jwin...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jwin...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I have a new Macbook Pro running 10.6 Snow Leopard and when I run
>> any pygame code that calls pygame.init() it takes literally about
>> 10 seconds to complete the call. Other examples, like "Samegame"
>> are quite elaborate but don't call init() and start up
>> immediately. Any thoughts anyone? I installed python 2.6 via
>> Macports (64bit) with Pygame 1.9.
>> best,
>> John
>>
>>
>
