reddit api, post with retries and rate limit

persistent_post_comment.py

def persistent_post_comment(parent,comment,retries=3,debug=False):
    result = None
    while retries >= 0:
        try:
            if debug:
                print "debug: comment: " + comment
            else:
                print "comment: " + comment
                result = post_comment(parent,comment)
        except reddit.errors.RateLimitExceeded as e:
            pprint.pprint(vars(e))
            print "Rate limited for " + str(e.sleep_time) + " seconds at " + time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime()) + ", sleeping"
            time_left = e.sleep_time
            while time_left > 0:
                if time_left >= 60:
                    time.sleep(60)
                    time_left -= 60
                else:
                    time.sleep(time_left)
                    time_left = 0
                if time_left > 0:
                    print str(time_left) + " seconds left to sleep"
            continue
        except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
            print e.__module__,'.',e.__class__.__name__,':',e
            pprint.pprint(vars(e))
            print e.headers
            print "code: " + str(e.code)
            if e.code == 403:
                print "HTTP 403, aborting this attempt"
                return None
            else:
                print e.readlines()
                print "retrying " + str(retries) + " more times, after 5 seconds"
                time.sleep(5)
                retries -= 1
            continue
        except Exception as e:
            print e.__module__,'.',e.__class__.__name__,':',e
            pprint.pprint(dir(e))
            pprint.pprint(vars(e))
            print "retrying " + str(retries) + " more times, after 5 seconds"
            time.sleep(5)
            retries -= 1
            continue
        break
    return result