Re: [pygame] very slow pygame.init() under Snow Leopard

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

An exclude list for pygame.init() :

pygame.init(exclude=['movie', ....])

That is feasible. And with no keyword argument:

pygame.init('display', 'mixer', ...)

only those modules are initialized.

pygame.init()

would continue to initialize everything. If this looks good I will add 
it to the wish list.

Lenard Lindstrom

On 26/08/11 10:32 AM, John Jameson wrote:
> 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).
>
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> On 8/26/11 10:05 AM, "Lenard Lindstrom"<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>  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"  ;-)