schedule task if exception has occurred python

Question

my question is simple as the title suggest

try:
    response = requests.get(URL2)  # download the data behind the URL
    open(zipname, "wb").write(response.content)  # Open the response into a new file
    # extract zip file to specified location
    with ZipFile(zipname, 'r') as zip_file:
        zip_file.extractall(path=path)
    os.remove(zipname)  # removes the downloaded zip file
    print("itworks")
except (requests.exceptions.ConnectionError, FileNotFoundError):
    print("finally the error")
    #  retry the try part after some seconds

now i want it to retry and go over again in case the exception happen, after some time.

Answer 1

You can always make it a recursive function and import time module to wait x seconds.

For instance:

import time

def doSomething():
    try:
        response = requests.get(URL2)  # download the data behind the URL
        open(zipname, "wb").write(response.content)  # Open the response into a new file
        # extract zip file to specified location
        with ZipFile(zipname, 'r') as zip_file:
            zip_file.extractall(path=path)
        os.remove(zipname)  # removes the downloaded zip file
        print("itworks")
    except (requests.exceptions.ConnectionError, FileNotFoundError):
        print("finally the error")
        #  retry the try part after some seconds
        time.sleep(1000)
        # Try again
        doSomething()