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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+This is an example of how to prompt inside an application that uses the asyncio
+eventloop. The ``prompt_toolkit`` library will make sure that when other
+coroutines are writing to stdout, they write above the prompt, not destroying
+the input line.
+This example does several things:
+    1. It starts a simple coroutine, printing a counter to stdout every second.
+    2. It starts a simple input/echo app loop which reads from stdin.
+Very important is the following patch. If you are passing stdin by reference to
+other parts of the code, make sure that this patch is applied as early as
+possible. ::
+    sys.stdout = app.stdout_proxy()
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+
+from prompt_toolkit.patch_stdout import patch_stdout
+from prompt_toolkit.shortcuts import PromptSession
+
+
+async def print_counter():
+    """
+    Coroutine that prints counters.
+    """
+    try:
+        i = 0
+        while True:
+            print("Counter: %i" % i)
+            i += 1
+            await asyncio.sleep(3)
+    except asyncio.CancelledError:
+        print("Background task cancelled.")
+
+
+async def interactive_shell():
+    """
+    Like `interactive_shell`, but doing things manual.
+    """
+    # Create Prompt.
+    session = PromptSession("Say something: ")
+
+    # Run echo loop. Read text from stdin, and reply it back.
+    while True:
+        try:
+            result = await session.prompt_async()
+            print(f'You said: "{result}"')
+        except (EOFError, KeyboardInterrupt):
+            return
+
+
+async def main():
+    with patch_stdout():
+        background_task = asyncio.create_task(print_counter())
+        try:
+            await interactive_shell()
+        finally:
+            background_task.cancel()
+        print("Quitting event loop. Bye.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())