Cannot detect Xbox controller movements in Pygame

Question

I've been using pygame as a means of creating a game, and I would like to incorporate controller gameplay into the game. I have been using a new Xbox One controller on pygame and have been able to detect the controller in pygame and such, however none of the pygame.get_event functions ever work and always return their default values even when I move the controller's joysticks around and press the buttons as well.

I have tried pygame.event.pump() to no avail. Here is my code:

    xboxController = pygame.joystick.Joystick(0)
    xboxController.init()
    print(xboxController.get_name())
    print("Axes", (xboxController.get_numaxes()))
    print("Balls", xboxController.get_numballs())
    print("Buttons", xboxController.get_numbuttons())
    print("Hats", xboxController.get_numhats())
    if xboxController.get_init() == True: print("Initialized properly")

    while not found:
        trial += 1
        print(trial)
        pygame.event.pump()
        for a in range(0, xboxController.get_numaxes()):
            if round(xboxController.get_axis(a)*100) != 0:
                print(xboxController.get_axis(a))
        for b in range(0, xboxController.get_numballs()):
            if xboxController.get_ball(b) != 0: 
                print(xboxController.get_ball(b))
        for c in range(0, xboxController.get_numbuttons()):
            if xboxController.get_button(c) != False: 
                print(xboxController.get_axis(button(c)))
        for d in range(0, xboxController.get_numhats()):
            if xboxController.get_hat(d) != (0, 0): 
                print(xboxController.get_hat(d))

The first part where I print out all of the properties of the controller works fine, it just never seems to know when the controller's joysticks are being moved.

Answer 1

I am also making a game with an Xbox controller, and experienced a very similar problem. My problem was fixed simply by using pygame.event.get() instead of pygame.event.pump(). You don't even need to do anything with the results, just getting the events seems to make pygame update the joystick positions.