Time.sleep in lambda function

Question

I was wondering how I can modify the following code to insert a time.sleep(0.5), since the GoogleTranslator API crashes if you send more than 5 request wihtin a second.

test["Label"]=test["cleanText"].apply(lambda x:GoogleTranslator(source='auto', target='en').translate(x))

Best, Daniel

Answer 1

Not sure what the Label and cleanText contains, but can't you can move the lambda out, create a separate function that has the time.sleep and GoogleTranslator logic, then use that inside apply ?