To achieve a rate of 1.39 requests per second, you can use a global variable to keep track of the time elapsed between requests and then calculate the delay based on that time. Here’s a modified version of your fetch_github_data function that implements this:

import time
import requests
import logging

PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_personal_access_token"
DELAY = 1 / 1.39  # Calculate the delay for 1.39 requests per second
last_request_time = 0  # Initialize a global variable to store the last request time


def fetch_github_data(url):
    global last_request_time  # Access the global variable

    try:
        headers = {
            "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json",
            "Authorization": f"Bearer {PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
            "X-GitHub-Api-Version": "2022-11-28",
        }

        # Calculate the time elapsed since the last request
        time_elapsed = time.time() - last_request_time

        # Calculate the required delay based on the time elapsed
        required_delay = max(0, DELAY - time_elapsed)

        # Sleep for the required delay
        time.sleep(required_delay)

        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

        # Update the last request time
        last_request_time = time.time()

        logging.info(f"Fetched data from {url}")
        return response.json()
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        logging.exception(f"Error fetching data from {url}\n{e}")
        raise

This code calculates the required delay based on the desired rate of 1.39 requests per second and the time elapsed since the last request. It then sleeps for the required delay before making the next request. The global variable last_request_time is used to keep track of the time of the last request.

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