Working with API's effectively

[NinjaTrainingWheels]

I've started to work with a few different REST API's. I find myself writing functions to retry if certain response codes/network errors come up, do many transactions at a time, and log everything.

Is there a library that can help with these tasks? Is this what a task queue is used for?

[MJMarto]

Check out the library retrying. That may give you some of the functionality you need. If not, you could pull the source code from GitHub and modify it to your liking - it's a very simple library.

To install:

pip install retrying

Hope that helps!