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February 19, 2025 12:40
Every python rate-limiting library (that I can find) is broken, at least a little.
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| # I was looking for a rate limiting library to call rate limited apis as closely | |
| # as possible to their enforced limits. I looked at the first few python libraries | |
| # that I found, and when I glanced at the source, they were all clearly broken. | |
| # Curious how this could be, I took all the top google and pip search results for: python rate limiting | |
| # and tried to get them to do the wrong thing and fail to rate limit in situations that could come up | |
| # in normal use (though in some cases very specific use) | |
| # https://github.com/tomasbasham/ratelimit | |
| # Where broken: |