litl/backoff

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python library providing function decorators for configurable backoff and retry logic. It supports both synchronous functions and asyncio coroutines, retrying on specified exceptions with strategies like exponential backoff.

Use cases

• retry failed HTTP requests with exponential backoff
• handle intermittent failures when calling external APIs
• poll a resource until content is available
• add retry logic to async coroutines
• give up after max tries or max time on flaky network calls

When to choose

• you need decorator-based retry with configurable backoff strategies in Python
• you want the same retry semantics for sync and asyncio code
• you need give-up conditions like max_tries or max_time

When to avoid

• you need circuit breaking or bulkhead patterns beyond simple retry
• you want retries based on response values rather than exceptions only
• you need a polyglot solution outside Python

Facets

library · maturity stable

middleware error-handling developer-tools apis python cross-platform retry backoff decorators asyncio exponential-backoff resilience automation

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