Retrying to send message

[Cecil Westerhof]

I am using libturpial to post messages on Twitter. Sometimes I get a
libturpial.exceptions.ServiceOverCapacity.

It is a good idea to try it again then. For this I wrote the following
function:
    def send_message(account_id, message, max_tries, terminate_program):
        error_msg   = 'Something went wrong with: ' + message
        not_send    = True
        tries       = 0
        while not_send:
            try:
                Core().update_status(account_id, message)
            except libturpial.exceptions.ServiceOverCapacity:
                tries += 1
                print('Tried to send it {0} times'.format(tries))
                if tries >= max_tries:
                    terminate_program(error_msg)
                time.sleep(60)
            except:
                terminate_program(error_msg)
            else:
                not_send = False

Is this a reasonable way to implement this, or is another way better?
Well, maybe the timeout should be a parameter also. ;-)


Also the documentation of time.sleep says:
    The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because
    any caught signal will terminate the sleep() following execution
    of that signal’s catching routine.

My program does not much else as sending the message. So I think it is
not necessary to cover for this possibility. Are I assuming to much?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof