Answer: Can I set max_retries for requests.request?

answer re: Can I set max_retries for requests.request?

Feb 19 '16

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This will not only change the max_retries but also enable a backoff strategy which makes requests to all http:// addresses sleep for a period of time before retrying (to a total of 5 times):

import requests
from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter

s = requests.Session()

retries = Retry(total=5,

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