fix: change polling strategy to every 5 sec for doctrans

Author: JanEbbing

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 * Thanks to [TurtleWilly](https://github.com/TurtleWilly) for the report in [#66](https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python/issues/66).
 * Fix a dependency error in our CI by updating to a higher poetry version in most cases.
 * Fix getUsage request to be a HTTP GET request, not POST.
+* Change document translation to poll the server every 5 seconds. This should greatly reduce observed document translation processing time.
 
 
 ## [1.14.0] - 2023-02-21

deepl/translator.py

@@ -1077,8 +1077,8 @@ def translate_document_wait_until_done(
         """
         status = self.translate_document_get_status(handle)
         while status.ok and not status.done:
-            secs = (status.seconds_remaining or 0) / 2.0 + 1.0
-            secs = max(1.0, min(secs, 60.0))
+            secs = 5.0  # seconds_remaining is currently unreliable, so just
+            # poll equidistantly
             util.log_info(
                 f"Rechecking document translation status "
                 f"after sleeping for {secs:.3f} seconds."