Input issue

Question

So im in begginer course it says you can put strings in an input to tell the user what to input
Code
Alert = input("type alarm here: ")
Print ( "*** "+ alert + " ***")

Output is
*** type alarm here: hello ***
What would be the correct way to prompt user input without is showing in the output text

Answer 1

alert=input("*** type alarm is here: ")
print (alert, " ***")