Auto retrying GET using requests

auto_retry_get

def fetch_url(url, num_of_tries):
    i = 0
    while i < num_of_tries:
        try:
            content = requests.get(url, verify=False)
            if content.status_code != 200:
                print content.status_code
                print content.text
                raise Exception("Not 200")
            return content
        except Exception as e:
            print("Exception requesting " + str(url) + "  Error: " + str(e))
            i += 1
            time.sleep(2 * i)
    return None