litl/backoff
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Python library providing function decorators for configurable backoff and retry
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-04-14 · latest 2025-08-26
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Looks like the entire GitHub organization is archived. Anyone know what happened? The most I see is: https://github.com/litl/backoff/issues/211
comment by 8organicbits · 2025-08-08 · in Python backoff repository was archived -
backoff is good, too: https://github.com/litl/backoff I moved away from tenacity because of type-checking issues. I might check out stamina next time.
comment by maleldil · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs) -
…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.
comment by networked · 2024-07-31 · in Ask HN: What are some unusual but useful Python libraries you've discovered? -
I use https://github.com/litl/backoff for configurable backoff + retry context: OpenAI API used to be super flaky back in the early days, i needed to retry my requests quite frequently and i found this
comment by Crier1002 · 2024-07-31 · in Ask HN: What are some unusual but useful Python libraries you've discovered? -
…a custom delegating decorator that remaps parameter names and does extra checks if necessary. [0] https://github.com/litl/backoff
comment by karlicoss · 2020-02-05 · in Opnieuw: A simple and intuitive retrying library for Python