[pygame] font/text in pygame

["D. Hartley" <denise.hartley@xxxxxxxxx>]

So with pygames, if I want to display text on the graphics window, I
can set the font and size and so on, and set what I want my text to
be.  But if I wanted python to grab that text from a list, say, how
would I do that? I can do it in the print command, as follows:

                        for score, name in high_scores:
                            slip = 30 - len(name)
                            slip_amt = slip*" "
                            prefix = 5*" "
                            print prefix,name,slip_amt,score

(slip et al. is spacing stuff - not the prettiest code to do it, but it works)

But in any case, font/text will only take strings - i cant pass in a
list, or an index to an item in a list (which is, in this case, a
tuple), and since the items in the list will be changed and updated
obviously i cant just type in the items as strings myself.

any ideas? does this question even make sense the way it's worded?
It's a last-ditch effort to get my high score list onto the graphics
window before i have to abandon it :)

Thanks!
~Denise