Update Python code to use less CPU #5
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The main functional change here is to use the "ratelimiter" library, which makes use of
time.sleep()to slow down execution to hit the requested rate limit on the loop. (The original code would busy-loop to slow itself down, causing high CPU usage.)My testing of the two scripts before and after shows a considerable decrease in the "user" time:
The rate of execution is slightly different between the two versions but should be close enough as I don't believe that's critical to the workshop?
I have also tidied the Python code up to meet PEP8 a bit better, and added boto3 to the Pipfile to ensure it's included in the virtualenv created by the user.