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Python decorator for throttling function calls. Sleeps until it can be called
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class throttle(object): | |
"""Decorator that prevents a function from being called more than once every | |
time period. | |
To create a function that cannot be called more than once a minute, but | |
will sleep until it can be called: | |
@throttle(minutes=1) | |
def foo(): | |
pass | |
for i in range(10): | |
foo() | |
print "This function has run %s times." % i | |
""" | |
def __init__(self, seconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0): | |
self.throttle_period = timedelta( | |
seconds=seconds, minutes=minutes, hours=hours | |
) | |
self.time_of_last_call = datetime.min | |
def __call__(self, fn): | |
@wraps(fn) | |
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): | |
now = datetime.now() | |
time_since_last_call = now - self.time_of_last_call | |
time_left = self.throttle_period - time_since_last_call | |
if time_left > timedelta(seconds=0): | |
time.sleep(time_left.seconds) | |
self.time_of_last_call = datetime.now() | |
return fn(*args, **kwargs) | |
return wrapper |
in line #29 it should probably be time.sleep(time_left.total_seconds())
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Isn't this missing: