# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2408560/non-blocking-console-input
import time, threading, queue

def collect(que):
    msg = input()
    que.put(msg)

msg = ""
while msg!="e":
    que = queue.Queue()
    thread = threading.Thread(target=collect, args=[que])
    thread.start()
    while thread.is_alive():
        print(".", end="")
        time.sleep(1)
#         print("The main thread continues while we wait for you...")

    msg = que.get()
    print('You typed:', msg)