Backoff

Backoff is a module to wrap functions such that they will be retried until some condition is met.

Install

pip install backoff

Examples

Catch Exception then rety 4 times. First retry wait 5 sec., 2nd 10 sec., 3rd 20 sec. and 4th 40 sec. Do not jitter the wait time.

import backoff
@backoff.on_exception(backoff.expo, Exception, max_tries=4, factor=5, jitter=None)
def do_something():
    pass

Catch Exception then rety 4 times. Always wait 10 sec. between retry. Do not jitter the wait time.

import backoff
@backoff.on_exception(backoff.constant, Exception, max_tries=4, interval=10, jitter=None)
def do_something():
    pass

Enable logging: logging.getLogger('backoff').addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())