Python Retry Using The Tenacity Module

I'm having having difficulty getting the tenacity library to work as expected. The retry in the following test doesn't trigger at all. I would expect a retry every 5 seconds and fo

Solution 1:

I suppose that tenacity detects failures by handling exceptions. In your code the exception is logged and then discarded. So, for tenacity, your call is actually successful. You should re-raise this exception to get the expected behavior. Like this:

@tenacity.retry(wait=tenacity.wait_fixed(5))
def connect():
    try:
        client.connect(HOST, int(PORT), USER)
        logging.info("Successful connection to remote server")
    except Exception:
        logging.error("Cannot connect to remote server")
        raise