retry

Backoff doesn't look bad. I have used two libraries for retrying in Python: retry (https://github.com/invl/retry) and Tenacity (https://github.com/jd/tenacity). Tenacity actually helped me with a recent GPT-4o mini experiment, when OpenRouter gave me an error after a couple hundred requests. I can recommend Tenacity. A downside is that the API is fairly complex and verbose. You will probably look it up each time if you don't use it often (or rely on an IDE or LLM). Backoff seems somewhat less flexible than Tenacity (https://github.com/litl/backoff/issues/125) but more concise. Basic use requires as little code as retry and should be easy to remember.

https://github.com/invl/retry works well for me. only problem is that logging issue that's still open i believe. seems to me that the authors wrote their own library instead of trying to make the ones that didn't meet their need better. well, they never mentioned they tried... anyways, some of their choices like that long variable name are odd to me. i can understand the unit problem though. golang solves that so nicely!