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

[Christopher Night <cosmologicon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The "pygame.init('display', ...) is redundant. The exclude list would be useful for omitting an unused, costly, module. But in general I agree that calling init() only on those modules that are used is good programming practice. The Pygame examples should even be updated to reflect this. Using pygame.init() is much like "from pygame import *".

I see in the documentation that someone left a comment saying that not calling pygame.init prevents you from using pygame.time.get_ticks. Is there a workaround for people who want to use this function but don't want to call pygame.init? I'm also curious how it might work with lazy imports (which sounds like a great idea).

-Christopher