How do I use Python input while using pynput as well? Python input not waiting for user input

Question

I am using pynput primarily because there are cases when I don't want the user to have to press enter after supplying an input e.g. when using arrow keys to navigate a CLI.

There are cases where I want to use Python's input function to extract a user's input and store it in a variable. My problem, however, is the input function is no longer working as normal and for a line such as

inp = input("Please enter number of seconds for data recording: ")

The prompt is printing but the program doesn't wait for the user input as it normally would.

So how do I get the behaviour I need. The way I'm using pynput is mostly as follows:

with keyboard.Events() as events:
    # Block for as much as possible
    event = events.get(1e6)
    if event.key == keyboard.Key.down:           
        x = 1
    return x