How do I add a timer to user input?

Question

I'm switching to Python for a while, and time in this language is something I'm not grasping. I'm trying to make it so the user has x amount of seconds to answer the question before the program decides no input is equal to the wrong answer and moves on to the next question.

I've had a few attempts with different results, none quite doing what I'm after.

import random
import operator
qLimit = 10
oqLimit = 10
score = 0
maxNum = 10
timeLimit = 0
otimeLimit = 5


ops = {
    '+':operator.add,
    '-':operator.sub
}

def generateQuestion():
    x = random.randint(1,maxNum)
    y = random.randint(1,maxNum)
    op = random.choice(list(ops.keys()))
    a = ops.get(op)(x,y)
    print("What is {} {} {}?\n".format(x, op, y))
    return a

def askQuestion(a):
    guess = input("")
        try:
            integer_input = int(guess)
    except ValueError:
        print('Please enter a valid number')
        return
        global score
        if integer_input == a:
            print("Correct!")
            score += 1
        else:
            print("Wrong, the answer is",a)


while qLimit != 0:
    askQuestion(generateQuestion())
    qLimit -= 1
    print ("You have", qLimit, "questions remaining")
    print("Your score is",score)
    if (qLimit == 0):
        break

timeLimit is the variable thats meant to decide how long they have to answer a question, otimeLimit is the variable that timeLimit gets reset back to for the next question

Not quite, on that thread the programs ceases to ask another question when the timer runs out but while an input is pending it wont stop. — Matt Newton, Mar 24 '15 at 02:27
While an `input` is waiting for user interaction, I think Python stops everything until the user gives the input. — jkd, Mar 24 '15 at 02:50

How do I add a timer to user input?

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