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    Pythonlangchain-corerate_limitersInMemoryRateLimiteracquire
    Method●Since v0.2

    acquire

    Attempt to acquire a token from the rate limiter.

    This method blocks until the required tokens are available if blocking is set to True.

    If blocking is set to False, the method will immediately return the result of the attempt to acquire the tokens.

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    acquire(
        self,
        *,
        blocking: bool = True,
    ) -> bool

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    blockingbool
    Default:True

    If True, the method will block until the tokens are available. If False, the method will return immediately with the result of the attempt.

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