pygame keystate[KEY] prints out lette more than once

[snowlizard31]

The keystate (keystate = pygame.key.get_pressed()) isn't working the way I want it to work instead of print out one character on key pressed it prints out 4 characters can some one help me fix this please?


import pygame, sys, string
from pygame.locals import *

def print_text(screen,text_length, (height, width)):
pygame.font.init()
fontobject = pygame.font.Font('Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf',18)
img = pygame.image.load('textbox.png')
screen.blit(img, (height,width))
pygame.display.flip()
k = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m ','n','o','p',
'q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
K = ['A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M ','N','O','P'
,'Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z']

r = dict(zip(k,k))
R = dict(zip(k,K))

message = ''
while True:
fonts = fontobject.render("%s"%message,1 , (0, 0, 0))
keystate = pygame.key.get_pressed()
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

# for loop with if for char input
for i in r:
if len(message) >= text_length:
pass
elif event.type == KEYDOWN:
if event.key == ord(r[i]):
message += i

if keystate[K_BACKSPACE]:
message = message[:-1]
elif len(message) >= text_length:
pass
elif keystate[K_SPACE]:
message += ' '
elif keystate[K_SEMICOLON]:
message += ';'
elif keystate[K_BACKQUOTE]:
message += '`'
elif keystate[K_LEFTBRACKET]:
message += '['
elif keystate[K_RIGHTBRACKET]:
message += ']'
elif keystate[K_COMMA]:
message += ','
elif keystate[K_PERIOD]:
message += '.'
elif keystate[K_SLASH]:
message += '/'
elif keystate[K_MINUS]:
message += '-'
elif keystate[K_EQUALS]:
message += '='
elif keystate[K_BACKSLASH]:
message += '\\'
elif keystate[K_QUOTE]:
message += "'"
elif keystate[K_ESCAPE]:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
elif keystate[K_RETURN]:
return message


screen.blit(img, (height,width))
screen.blit(fonts,(height+4, width+6))
pygame.display.flip()