/RateLimiting

Simple Python module providing rate limiting

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RateLimiting

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Simple Python module providing rate limiting.

Overview

This package provides the ratelimiting module, which ensures that an operation will not be executed more than a given number of times on a given period. This can prove useful when working with third parties APIs which require for example a maximum of 10 requests per second.

Usage

Decorator flavor:

>>> from ratelimiting import RateLimiting
>>> @RateLimiting(max_calls=10, period=1.0)
... def do_something():
...     pass
...

Context manager flavor:

>>> from ratelimiting import RateLimiting
>>> rate_limiter = RateLimiting(max_calls=10, period=1.0)
>>> for i in range(100):
...     with rate_limiter:
...         do_something()
...

License

Copyright 2013 Arnaud Porterie

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.