title: How to get text input from user in Pygame?
body: <p>How to make pygame print input from user:</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to have the user type something and pygame prints it on the screen.</p>
  
  <p>This is my current program:</p>
  
  <pre><code>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) -&gt; 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 &lt;= 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()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want it so when the user hits enter, it emptys the screen.</p>
  
  <p>Help Me!</p>