Implementing retry for requests in Python

Question

How do I implement a retry count of 5 times, 10 seconds apart when sending a POST request using the requests package. I have found plenty of exampl

Answer 1

I found that the default behaviour of Retries did not apply to POST. To do so required the addition of method_whitelist, e.g. below:

def retry_session(retries=5):
    session = Session()
    retries = Retry(total=retries,
                backoff_factor=0.1,
                status_forcelist=[500, 502, 503, 504],
                method_whitelist=frozenset(['GET', 'POST']))

    session.mount('https://', HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries))
    session.mount('http://', HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries))

    return session