Currently I am working on a game project in pygame. We have a library folder containing all of our images, text files, and fonts. We are converting this to an archive file because we have many many files (~12,000) and don't want to litter folders and files everywhere on a users computer. We turned to the tarfile module simply because it was built in and easy to use. Currently, I am using tarfile's extractfile to retrieve a file object from the tar file and put it into memory. Pygame does not like tarfile's file objects at all.
Using pygame.image.load, if I pass the filename and directory, the load time is near instant at 0.0 ~ 0.0009s. Whereas passing the file object created by tarfile increases the load time to an insane 1.4 - 1.5s! Even worse: passing a file object to pygame.font.Font produces a segmentation fault. Am I missing something or is there an issue with tar file objects? I have a feeling this will be consistent with many different file objects. Any help is greatly appreciated and welcomed.
