[pygame] Keyboard input, too fast!

["ant brown" <mind_of_bobo@hotmail.com>]

Hello,
this is my first post on one of these mailing things, so please go nuts at 
me if I'm doing it all wrong.
Well I need some help, it may be really basic but i haven't been able to 
find it anywhere.

Problem:
  I'm creating a menu for a Pacman game, there are 3 options (New Game, 
Options, and Exit) I have the code working so that if the user presses down 
or up it cycles through the options and highlights the selected.
 What goes wrong is that when the user presses a key once it tends to 
repeat it lots. umm how do i explain this. Ok in the main loop
  while 1:
        #check for user quitting etc.

        #now get the user input
        keystate = pygame.key.get_pressed()

        if keystate[K_DOWN]:
            print "hello"

effectively what i get is hello appearing six times. or with my actual code 
the user can't get to Options because when they press down it zooms past it 
straight to Exit.

The thing that i dont under stand is i press down once and it says i pressed 
it six times???


Do i need to attach a code file, does that help?

Well any time and help you can give me is appreciated
:Ant

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