I am creating a class called Button , and one of the properties of this class is an image.
I wanted to know if there is a problem, if within this class I used self.imagem = pygame.image.load() to not have to pass the image as an argument, since in this application I will only have a button image.
So whenever I create a Button it will read the same image again or will know that it has already loaded this image before and will simply pull it out of a cache, I do not know?
Yes - there is a problem.
Unlike the Python module import system, which uses a very complicated mechanic to read a disk file once, no matter how many times you do import , pygame.image.load does not incorporate any logic type: it will read the file from the disk and unzip it every time it is run.
You can have a startup function that reads all your images at the beginning of the program (or all the images of the current scene in the case of a large project), and store them in a dictionary. Then you retrieve the images from the dictionary instead of using the load every time.
