How to load PYGAME2 from console (no X desktop)?

[eat-sleep-code]

I have:

• a Raspberry Pi Zero W running a fully patched Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Bullseye)
• this LCD screen with touch capabilities: (https://www.amazon.com/800x480-Resoluti ... B09M5ZJ9QF)
• legacy GL driver enabled under Advanced settings of raspi-config (to get past fbcon error)

When I run the command...

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tiny-bandit --noX=True

...from the console (again, I am testing using a real console session, not an SSH session), I get the following error:

Fatal Python error: PyEval_SaveThread: the function must be called with the GIL held, but the GIL is released (the current Python thread state is NULL)
Python runtime state: initialized

Current thread 0xb6fa9640 (most recent call first):
File "/home/pi/tiny-bandit/globals.py", line 22 in initialize
File "/home/pi/tiny-bandit/tiny-bandit.py", line 66 in startup
File "/home/pi/tiny-bandit/tiny-bandit.py", line 112 in <module>
Aborted

How do I get past this, so I can run the program from the console? From another Raspberry Pi 4, I can run it from a Pi OS desktop (without the --noX=True attribute), so the issue appears to be related to running it from the console.

This is my work-in-progress code: https://github.com/eat-sleep-code/tiny-bandit