From ecee9a438a20c89ca446e0670566cb7ec0be6553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:16:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Example for checking rate limits

---
 tango_examples/rate_limit.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tango_examples/rate_limit.py

diff --git a/tango_examples/rate_limit.py b/tango_examples/rate_limit.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae85973
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tango_examples/rate_limit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import tango
+
+# Instantiate with Basic (HTTP) Authentication
+twitter = tango.setup(authtype="Basic", username="example", password="example")
+
+# This returns the rate limit for the requesting IP
+rateLimit = twitter.getRateLimitStatus()
+
+# This returns the rate limit for the requesting authenticated user
+rateLimit = twitter.getRateLimitStatus(rate_for="user")