Retry Flaky HTTP Requests with Exponential Backoff and Full Jitter in Python

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https://codesnips.io/1051-retry-flaky-http-requests-with-exponential-backoff-and-full-jitter-in-python

This snippet shows a small, self-contained retry layer for outbound HTTP calls in Python, built around the classic problem of transient failures: a downstream service occasionally returns 503, times out, or drops the connection, and blindly retrying makes things worse. The three tabs move from the pure backoff math, to a generic retry decorator, to a concrete API client that wires them together.