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Handling Timeouts Gracefully with Python's urllib

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 6, 2024

When fetching data from external websites and APIs, handling timeouts gracefully and implementing retry logic with exponential backoff is crucial for building robust applications.

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