How to get text input from user in Pygame?

How to make pygame print input from user:

I am trying to have the user type something and pygame prints it on the screen.

This is my current program:

import pygame, pygame.font, pygame.event, pygame.draw, string
from pygame.locals import *

def get_key():
  while 1:
    event = pygame.event.poll()
    if event.type == KEYDOWN:
      return event.key
    else:
      pass

def display_box(screen, message):
  "Print a message in a box in the middle of the screen"
  fontobject = pygame.font.Font(None,18)
  pygame.draw.rect(screen, (0,0,0),
                   ((screen.get_width() / 2) - 100,
                    (screen.get_height() / 2) - 10,
                    200,20), 0)
  pygame.draw.rect(screen, (255,255,255),
                   ((screen.get_width() / 2) - 102,
                    (screen.get_height() / 2) - 12,
                    204,24), 1)
  if len(message) != 0:
    screen.blit(fontobject.render(message, 1, (255,255,255)),
                ((screen.get_width() / 2) - 100, (screen.get_height() / 2) - 10))
  pygame.display.flip()

def ask(screen, question):
  "ask(screen, question) -> answer"
  pygame.font.init()
  current_string = []
  display_box(screen, question + ": " + string.join(current_string,""))
  while 1:
    inkey = get_key()
    if inkey == K_BACKSPACE:
      current_string = current_string[0:-1]
    elif inkey == K_RETURN:
      break
    elif inkey == K_MINUS:
      current_string.append("_")
    elif inkey <= 127:
      current_string.append(chr(inkey))
    display_box(screen, question + ": " + string.join(current_string,""))
  return string.join(current_string,"")

def main():
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((320,240))
    print ask(screen, "Name") + " was entered"

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

I want it so when the user hits enter, it emptys the screen.

Help Me!

Here is an example script that blits input to the screen. It shows how you can modify a name string while looping through the pygame event queue. Each frame, the screen is cleared and the name surface is rebuilt and blit.

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

def name():
    pygame.init()
    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((480, 360))
    name = ""
    font = pygame.font.Font(None, 50)
    while True:
        for evt in pygame.event.get():
            if evt.type == KEYDOWN:
                if evt.unicode.isalpha():
                    name += evt.unicode
                elif evt.key == K_BACKSPACE:
                    name = name[:-1]
                elif evt.key == K_RETURN:
                    name = ""
            elif evt.type == QUIT:
                return
        screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
        block = font.render(name, True, (255, 255, 255))
        rect = block.get_rect()
        rect.center = screen.get_rect().center
        screen.blit(block, rect)
        pygame.display.flip()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    name()
    pygame.quit()

Here is a gist version