# Hacking the Csound API with python.

**URL:** <https://forum.csound.com/t/hacking-the-csound-api-with-python/2323>\
**Category:** Newbies\
**Created:** [November 9, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.csound.com/t/hacking-the-csound-api-with-python/2323 "2025-11-09T18:30:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.csound.com/t/hacking-the-csound-api-with-python/2323/1 "2025-11-09T18:30:30Z")

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Could you teach me how to hack the Csound API with python? I want to use csound with pyGame so I can make interactive art.

all I need is a 440Hz Sine wave for 1 second from python “HACKING” the csound API.  
I got 10 years of python under my belt and I know I can do this. All I need is one simple demonstration. The FLOSS manual was complicated but I will read it again if I have to. I bought it from [lulu.com](http://lulu.com) book publishing services. I believe that there was a “newer” FLOSS manual that told me something slightly different but I just bypast it and it didn’t sink in.

It can’t be that hard… just a 440Hz Sine wave.