Sleep causes threads to hang (python internal issue)

py34/scraper.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from cloudscraper import CloudScraper
 from requests import Response
 from retry import retry
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import time
 
 
 class ScraperException(Exception):
@@ -35,7 +34,6 @@ class Scraper:
             res.close()
             if res.status_code == 429:
                 self.reset()
-                time.sleep(10)
                 continue
             if not body:
                 return res