Re: [pygame] Joystick no longer global in Pygame2?

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Subject: Re: [pygame] Joystick no longer global in Pygame2?
From: Charlie Hayden <charlie.c.hayden@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:15:31 -0800
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Alec, this is actually a recent change I believe (after pygame 2.1), and comes from our SDL backend.

It's been discussed in this Github issue, and I believe they've got an environment variable that will do it.

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- [pygame] Joystick no longer global in Pygame2?
  - From: Alec Bennett