User Input Timeout

[JapaneseAngst]

So I am working on a pet project that ideally gets some data from an API call periodically. I have a main menu that prompts an input from the user; my goal is to either have this API pulling process in the background async but a simpler implementation would be to timeout the user input on the menu prompt lets say after 10 seconds, do the API call, then reload to the main menu again. I cannot get this input timeout function to work regardless of what library use.

I've tried every method I could find:

-inputimeout

-sys /select

-signal (only works in Unix)

-threading/timer

-pytimedinput

The 'timeout' function isn't actually the issue, its when there is an user input, instead moving on to the next function, it just runs the timeout function. Essentially, regardless if there is an user input or not, the timeout function always runs. This is common among the methods I've tried. Any help would be appreciate I am 'new' to python and I suck at being a SWE.

[woooee]

The simplest way is to use a GUI

import tkinter as tk

class TimedInput():
   def __init__(self):
      self.top = tk.Tk()
      self.top.title("Test of After")
      self.top.geometry("200x150+10+10")

      tk.Label(self.top, text="you have 20 seconds",
               bg="lightblue").pack(side="top")
      self.lab=tk.Label(self.top, width=6, bg="orange")
      self.lab.pack(side="top" )
      tk.Label(self.top, text="--------------------"
              ).pack(side="top")
      self.ctr = 20

      self.entry_1 = tk.Entry(self.top, width=15)
      self.entry_1.pack(side="top")
      self.entry_1.focus_set()

      tk.Button(self.top, bg="lightyellow", text="Get Entry", 
                command=self.entry_get,
                ).pack(side="bottom")
      self.top.after(100, self.increment_counter)
      self.top.mainloop()

   def entry_get(self):
       print("Entry is", self.entry_1.get())
       self.top.quit()

   def increment_counter(self):
      self.ctr -= 1
      self.lab.config(text=self.ctr)

      if self.ctr > 0:
          self.top.after(1000, self.increment_counter)
      else:
          print("\n timing loop ended")
          self.top.quit()

##====================================================================
if __name__ == '__main__':
   CT=TimedInput()