Pygame - How do I check if my rect has already been clicked?

Question

What I'm trying to do is if a rect has been clicked, it is selected and text will display, but if its clicked again, then it is de-seleced and the text goes away.

list_of_rect is a list of coordinates (x, y, width, height) representing the position and size of the rect.

render_display just shows the screen with text.

if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONUP and event.button == 1:
    x, y = event.pos
    for i in range(len(list_of_rect)):
        j = list_of_rect[i]
        if j[0][0] <= x <= (j[0][0] + j[0][2]) and j[0][1] <= y <= \
                (j[0][1] + j[0][3]):
                render_display(screen, text)

EDIT: One idea I was thinking was to keep track of the rectangle that has been clicked on. But I'm not sure how to implement this

Answer 1

Try having a list, like this:

rects_clicked = []

Then, in your event code:

if j not in rects_clicked:
    #undisplay text
    rects_clicked.append(j)
else:
    #display text
    rects_clicked.remove(j)