Convenient request max retries setup

[lukasz-staniszewski]

Hello,

are there any plans to allow setting a maximum number of request retries in deepl.Translator() args? Or is there any convenient way I can do it by myself without touching the library code?

[JanEbbing]

Hi, you can configure this by changing the max_network_retries value in deepl.http_client (definition here). Note that it only retries transient errors.

We should probably add this to the README...

[lukasz-staniszewski]

Thanks for your response!

Yeah, but it involves changing the library code, which I would prefer not to do. I've seen that the php implementation supports specifying timeout more conveniently, hence I hoped for that.

[JanEbbing]

What do you mean by "changing the library code"? You can use it like this in your application code:

import deepl
deepl.http_client.max_network_retries = 2
translator = deepl.Translator('my_auth_key')  # Will use 2 retries

[lukasz-staniszewski]

Yeah, you are entirely right, sorry for my misunderstanding. Thank you for your help!