On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Deven Hickingbotham <dev...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> When playing an audio file (pygame.mixer.music.play()) I have always > assumed that this executed in a process or thread separate from the main > thread since the call to play was non blocking. > AFAIK, pygame is singlethreaded. For sound at least, the syscall that starts the audio device is asynchronous (i.e., the CPU doesn't babysit the sound card for every byte it plays; this wouldn't perform acceptably).
