Code reviewMediumcr-g306

Subject Retry logicLevel Mid–Senior~18 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Python retry decorator applied to outbound API calls.

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1def with_retry(fn):2    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):3        for _ in range(3):4            try:5                return fn(*args, **kwargs)6            except Exception:7                continue8        return None9    return wrapper

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