Making mouse and keyboard listeners after stopping both takes several seconds

[Caleb-Bolton]

I'm trying to make a Macro recording program with Pynput where listeners need to be switched at variable times. Therefore I'm trying to start mouse and keyboard listeners and then later when a trigger occurs, stop them, and then later start them up (by making new listeners that have the same callbacks of course).

However, when I stop both listeners by calling mouse.Listener.stop(mouseListener) and keyboard.Listener.stop(keyboardListener), and the try to start new listeners up again, it takes several seconds just to execute mouse.Listener(...) and keyboard.Listener(...)

from pynput import mouse, keyboard
import threading

def start():
  print('start')
  mListener = mouse.Listener(on_move=lambda x, y: print('on_move'))
  kListener = keyboard.Listener(on_press=lambda key: print('on_press'))
  mListener.start()
  kListener.start()
  return (mListener, kListener)

def stop(mListener, kListener):
  mouse.Listener.stop(mListener)
  keyboard.Listener.stop(kListener)
  print('stop')

(mListener, kListener) = start()

threading.Timer(2, lambda: stop(mListener, kListener)).start()
threading.Timer(5, lambda: start()).start()

while True:
  pass

After the first timer stops the listeners and the second timer triggers, several seconds pass by between 'start' being printed and the start() function finishes.