It is hard to tell what you want, but based on your edits it looks like you are trying to do something like this:
replys = []
while True:
reply = input('Enter text, [type "stop" to quit]: ')
print(reply)
if reply == 'stop' or reply == ' ':
print(" ".join(replys))
break
replys.append(reply)
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solved Python–always get “must be str not int”