self._sleep() should not be private.

[robvdl]

It would be much better just to remove the underscore, I am calling it a bit from my tasksets, not sure why it's even private.

[cgoldberg]

You can get a similar effect using wait(), and setting your TaskSet's min_wait and max_wait set to the same value.

however, see /locust/core.py ... there are some subtle differences between _sleep() and wait(), and I'm not sure using sleep is really what you want.

[heyman]

Using TaskSet._sleep() is exactly the same as calling gevent.sleep() which is the same as calling time.sleep() (since it's been monkey patched by gevent). Actually I think we could consider removing _sleep() and instead calling gevent.sleep() directly.

[jessebrennan]

My particular use case for this was I wanted to sleep while within a task because some endpoints I'm testing give a retry-after header. It seems like just calling self._sleep() (or even gevent.sleep()) accomplishes exactly what I'm looking for.

Maybe this case is atypical, but also I don't see a problem making it a public part of the API.