guardian

Simplistic anti-flooding mechanism for limiting chatbot responses, etc..

Use

anti_flood = guardian.Guardian()

if anti_flood.is_flooding(username, OPTIONAL_FLOOD_LIMIT_INTEGER):
    reply = "You are sending too many requests too quickly."
else:
    reply = "Here is the response you requested."

slow_chat = guardian_fixed_time.Guardian()

if slow_chat.can_message(username):
    reply = "Here is the response you requested."
else:
    reply = "Wait a little longer before making a request."