[tor-commits] [doctor/master] Backoff when retrying urlopen requests

[atagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

commit 40f9ed7249ae0f7f92f0908464169106fc24e2b5
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sun Dec 17 13:03:00 2017 -0800

    Backoff when retrying urlopen requests
    
    The gentoo site in particular is pretty flaky. Doing some exponential backoff.
---
 package_versions.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package_versions.py b/package_versions.py
index 2ea5883..19503fe 100755
--- a/package_versions.py
+++ b/package_versions.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Checks for outdated versions on the packages wiki...
 
 import collections
 import re
+import time
 import urllib2
 
 DEBIAN_VERSION = '<h1>Package: \S+ \(([0-9\.]+).*\)'
@@ -95,6 +96,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         except Exception as exc:
           request_exc = exc  # note exception and retry
 
+          if i != 2:
+            time.sleep(2 ** i)
+
       if request:
         match = re.search(package.regex, request)
         current_version = match.group(1) if match else None



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