Python · Mid-level · Theory

Talk me through writing a retry decorator that repeats a function call a given number of times when certain exceptions are raised. How would it be structured, and what pitfalls would you account for?

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The interviewer wants to see whether you understand how a decorator with parameters is built (closures, three levels of nesting) and whether you can think about reliability: which errors to retry, how not to swallow an exception, how not to overload a service, and what to do about async.

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