Simple function to rate limit message printing

message_rate_limit.py

def print_message(message):
    """
    Function to limit the printing of messages
    This will limit the printing of messages to amount per second
    :param message:
    :return:
    """
    window = 1
    max_messages = 5
    message_count = 0
    last_called = int(time.time())
    for i in range(0, 100):
        time.sleep(.5)
        elapsed = int(time.time()) - last_called
        if elapsed - window >= window or message_count > max_messages:
            print("to many messages in allowed time window")
            # reset message count to 0 
            message_count = 0
            time_to_wait = elapsed - window
            time.sleep(int(time_to_wait))
            # reset last called, needs to stay after sleep or probably get
            # stuck in a infinite loop
            last_called = int(time.time())
        message_count = message_count + 1
        print(message)


print_message('test')