Repeat Python function call on exception?

Question

Hey everybody I\'m working on a data scraping project and I\'m looking for a clean way to repeat a function call if an exception is raised.

Pseudo-code:

Answer 1

I like to do these problems with recursion:

def tryfor(times, on_failure, excepts, func, *args, **kwargs):
    if times < 1:
        raise on_failure()
    try:
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
    except excepts:
        return tryfor(times-1, on_failure, excepts, func, *args, **kwargs)


tryfor(3, PermanentException, (SomeError,), dostuff,1,2)