What Is Retrying in Python?

Retrying is an Apache 2.0 licensed general-purpose retrying library, written in Python, to simplify the task of adding retry behavior to just about anything. The simplest use case is retrying a flaky function whenever an Exception occurs until a value is returned.

What is a retry decorator?

The Python wiki has a Retry decorator example which retries calling a failure-prone function using an exponential backoff algorithm. ... Each time the decorated function throws an exception, the decorator will wait a period of time and retry calling the function until the maximum number of tries is used up.

How do you use a retry decorator?

To install retry decorator , use below command.
  1. pip install retry. To use it in your code , include below statement in your code.
  2. from retry import retry. ...
  3. @retry() ...
  4. @retry((ValueError,TypeError,InvalidStatus), delay=5, tries=6)
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