🔄 retry.it, a simple retry library

Ever wanted to retry a function but didn't want to implement fancy logic to do it?

Well now you don't have to thanks to retry.it!

Thanks to this simple <100 line module you too can experience the wonders of retrying functions in all of their glory, without any of the fancy logic!

Have a function that only works some of the time? retry.it!

Have a function that needs to poll a website x times to check if something is down? retry.it!

Have a function that you just want to run over and over again? retry.it!

NOTE: Compatability for Windows is not yet available

Installation

pip install retry.it

Features

• Functions can be retried based on:
  • Success criteria (like a status code not equaling 200)
  • Exceptions (like a function raising a requests.RequestException)
    • All accepted exceptions raise the original exception on failure as well!
• Functions can fail based on:
  • Maximum number of retries exceeded
  • Maximum timeout achieved
• Function retries can be spaced apart at a specific interval

Examples

Use it as a decorator!

Send a GET request to a URL until it returns a status code of 200! Rest a second between tries

import requests

from retry import retry

@retry(max_retries=-1, interval=1, success=lambda x: x.status_code == 200)
def poll_url(url, method='GET'):
    return requests.request(method, url)

Use it with a timeout!

Same function as above, timeout after 10 seconds!

import requests

from retry import retry

@retry(
    max_retries=-1, interval=1, success=lambda x: x.status_code == 200,
    timeout=10)
def poll_url(url, method='GET'):
    return requests.request(method, url)

Use it with Exceptions!

Same function as above, timeout after 10 seconds!

import requests

from retry import retry

@retry(
    exceptions=(requests.RequestException,), max_retries=-1, interval=1,
    success=lambda x: x.status_code == 200, timeout=10)
def poll_url(url, method='GET'):
    return requests.request(method, url)

Use it as a wrapper!

Send any type of request to a URL until it returns a status code set by the user!

import requests

from retry import retry

def poll_url(url, method='GET'):
    return requests.request(method, url)

def poll_url_with_retries(
        url, method='GET', max_retries=-1, interval=1, status_code=200):
    return retry(
        max_retries=max_retries,
        interval=interval,
        success=lambda x: x.status_code == status_code
        timeout=10)(poll_url)(url, method)

Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Commit changes to your Fork
3. Submit those changes!

Why use retry.it

When looking for a library that does something similar to retry.it I could not find one that not only suited everything I needed but also was something I could understand and extend easily. Enter retry.it! retry.it aims to be simple and clocking in at <100 lines of real code it is simple!

Alternatives

• retrying
• retry