I would like to add a retry mechanism to Python Requests library, so scripts that are using it will retry for non-fatal errors.

At this moment I do consider three kind of errors to be recoverable:

• HTTP return codes 502, 503, 504
• host not found (less important now)
• request timeout

At the first stage I do want to retry specified 5xx requests every minute.

I want to be able to add this functionality transparently, without having to manually implement recovery for each HTTP call made from inside these scripts or libraries that are using Python Requests.