from socket import *
serverName = 'localhost'
serverPort = 12000
clientSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
clientSocket.settimeout(0.5) # Give up after a half second.
message = input('Input lowercase sentence:').encode('ascii')
clientSocket.sendto(message, (serverName, serverPort))
modifiedMessage, serverAddress = clientSocket.recvfrom(2048)
print(modifiedMessage.decode('ascii'))
clientSocket.close()

# Suggestions for further improvement:
#   (1) Catch the timeout exception and retry a limited number of times.
#   (2) Start with a small timeout and increase it each retry.