This project is a simple example of a python implementation of a message throttler.

You should have a unix-type machine (e.g. OSX, Linux) and python3 on your path.

• make demo to see sample output
• make test to run unit tests
• make run_notebooks to run the visualization demo

The implementation is in throttle.py. It is a somewhat naive implementation using the native python deque class. This is somewhat performant, but obviously a custom class optimized for this tiny use case could be much faster.

After running make test, you should be able to open up the top-level directory in PyCharm right away. The following run configurations are available:

• harness : run the command-line harness (with default input)
• Unit tests : run unit tests

There is a sample Jupyter notebook here. To run it: make run_notebooks.

You should be able to get a histogram slider like this one: