Retry POST requests with Python Requests

main.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from requests import Session
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
from requests.packages.urllib3.util import Retry


def main():
    retries = Retry(
        total=5,
        backoff_factor=1,
        status_forcelist=[500, 502, 503, 504, 521],
        allowed_methods=["POST"],  # need this
    )
    s = Session()
    s.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries))
    url = "https://httpbin.org/status/500"
    s.post(url)  # Raise requests.exceptions.RetryError


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()