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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def handle_error(self, error):
 """ Try to detect repetitive errors and sleep for a while to avoid being marked as spam """

        logging.exception("try to sleep if there are repeating errors.")
        error_desc = str(error)
        now = datetime.datetime.now()
        if error_desc not in self.error_time_log:
            self.error_time_log[error_desc] = now
            return

        time_of_last_encounter = self.error_time_log[str(error)]
        time_since_last_encounter = now - time_of_last_encounter
        if time_since_last_encounter.total_seconds() > self.config.get('min_seconds_between_errors'):
            self.error_time_log[error_desc] = now
            return

        if error_desc not in self.error_sleep_log:
            time.sleep(self.config.get('sleep_seconds_on_consecutive_errors'))
            self.error_sleep_log[error_desc] = 1
        else:
            sys.exit()