import time

import random

def retry_html_page(url, max_retries=3, delay=1):

"""

Retries fetching an HTML page with exponential backoff.

"""

for attempt in range(max_retries):

try:

# Simulate fetching the HTML page (replace with your actual fetching logic)

# For demonstration, just simulate a potential error

if attempt < max_retries:

if random.random() < 0.2: # Simulate 20% chance of failure

raise Exception(f"Simulated error on attempt {attempt+1}")

# Replace this with your actual code to fetch the HTML page.

# For example:

# import urllib.request

# response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

# html_content = response.read().decode('utf-8')

print(f"Successfully fetched {url} on attempt {attempt+1}")

return True # Success!

except Exception as e:

print(f"Attempt {attempt+1} failed: {e}")

if attempt < max_retries - 1:

# Exponential backoff

sleep_time = delay * (2 ** attempt) + random.uniform(0, 1) #add random jitter

print(f"Retrying in {sleep_time:.2f} seconds...")

time.sleep(sleep_time)

else:

print(f"Max retries reached for {url}. Giving up.")

return False # Failed after all retries

return False #Should not reach here unless max_retries is 0

if __name__ == '__main__':

test_url = "https://www.example.com" # Replace with your target URL

success = retry_html_page(test_url)

if success:

print(f"Successfully processed {test_url}")

else:

print(f"Failed to process {test_url} after multiple retries.")