Genesys Cloud Python SDK: Bulk user creation hitting 429 Too Many Requests

I’m writing a script to bulk-create users from a CSV file using the Genesys Cloud Python Platform SDK. The goal is to provision a batch of agents and capture their IDs for a subsequent New Relic integration. I’m iterating through the CSV rows and calling users_api.post_users() for each entry. The first few users create successfully with a 201 status. After about ten calls, the script starts throwing 429 Too Many Requests errors. I’ve added a time.sleep(1) between requests, but the rate limit seems to trigger anyway. I’m using the genesyscloud package version 2.0.0.

Here is the relevant snippet:

from genesyscloud.platform.client import Client
import csv

def create_user(client, name, email):
 user_body = {
 "name": name,
 "email": email,
 "phone_numbers": []
 }
 response = client.users.post_users(body=user_body)
 return response.body

with open('agents.csv') as f:
 reader = csv.DictReader(f)
 for row in reader:
 try:
 create_user(client, row['name'], row['email'])
 except Exception as e:
 print(f"Failed: {e}")
 time.sleep(1)

The error message is 429 Too Many Requests. Retry after 60 seconds. I need a reliable way to handle the rate limiting without pausing the entire script for a minute. Is there a built-in retry mechanism in the SDK or a better pattern for this?