This might allow to keep rate limits upon subsequent calls.

Docstrings and other attributes are not preserved when using the decorators in this package. For example:

>>> import ratelim
>>> def f():
...     """Docs"""
...
>>> f.__doc__
'Docs'
>>> f = ratelim.greedy(10, 5)(f)
>>> f
<function wrapped_f at 0x10dd041b8>
>>> f.__doc__
>>>

Other attributes that should be preserved are __name__ and __module__. In particular this is important as a decorator should aim to decorate the existing function and therefore preserve its details.

Tests are needed.

Someone mentioned to me that your PyPi package doesn't contain a Zip file in your latest release.

He was running a linux OS and couldn't install it from the setup.py file.

When uploading wheel also include sdist for the zip fie.

$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel upload

Introduce the possibility to have wait-times chosen from arbitrary distributions (e.g., gaussian, poissonian, ...), but which still respect the rate limit.

Right now ratelim.patient distributes evenly function calls.

When a function call runs for longer than the wait time, the ratelimiter could make up for that lost time by sleeping for shorter intervals in next function calls. This is not currently implemented.

I'm getting this indentation errors when I'm testing it in a Python 3.4 env.

I think it's only the latest version of PyPi, your github repo looks good.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/ubuntu/Github/geocoder/geocoder/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    from .api import get, yahoo, bing, geonames, google, mapquest
  File "/home/ubuntu/Github/geocoder/geocoder/api.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .google import Google
  File "/home/ubuntu/Github/geocoder/geocoder/google.py", line 4, in <module>
    import ratelim
  File "/home/ubuntu/env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ratelim/__init__.py", line 18
    self.__max_calls = max_calls
                               ^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

Seems some git marks appears on init.py:

<<<<<<< HEAD

94baa8b... Remove external function for providing totalseconds to timedelta objects and make it inline using exceptions