[pygame] pygame.event.key question

[Matt Campbell <ghwerig@cox.net>]

Is there a way to go from a pygame.event of type KEYDOWN to the 
character pressed?  I.e. if I have an event e, I can do this:

char = chr(e.key)

but it doesn't take into account caps lock, shift, etc.  I can look at 
the shift state in e.mods, and do this:

char = string.toupper(e.key)

but this still only allows me to get caps.  It doesn't let me get '~', 
'!', etc.  Also, since non-English keyboards don't have the same shifted 
characters in the same position, I can't make a translation table for 
shift that says { '1' => '!', '2' => '@', ...}.

Has anyone here dealt with this before?

-Matt