Ok. So if I understand this correctly, the error handler is the wrong place to implement a retry logic, correct?
I guess I could write a@retry(retries: int, sleep: int) decorator.

I was hoping for a more general solution. Something akin to Telebot'sinfinity_polling.

Ok. So if I understand this correctly, the error handler is the wrong place to implement a retry logic, correct?

yes

I guess I could write a@retry(retries: int, sleep: int) decorator.

Note that this would retry the whole callback, which may be too much. e.g. if your callback sends 2 messages and only the second one fails, then aretry decorator would call the whole callback again, leading to the first message also being send again even though it was successful the first time already

I was hoping for a more general solution. Something akin to Telebot'sinfinity_polling.

You're mixing things up here:infinty_polling is a long running task tofetch updates, not to handle them.Updater.start_polling. PTBs equivalent isUpdater.start_polling, which is completely independent ofDispatcher, who manages the handlers

Note that this would retry the whole callback, which may be too much. e.g. if your callback sends 2 messages and only the second one fails, then a retry decorator would call the whole callback again, leading to the first message also being send again even though it was successful the first time already

Yep. You're right. I thought about that right after I posted it. Lol.

Hm. I guess unless I'm overlooking something obvious, the best solution would be to wrap the most recurring API calls in my own functions. I'd rather not clutter my entire codebase with try-except logic.

You're mixing things up here: infinty_polling is a long running task to fetch updates, not to handle them. Updater.start_polling. PTBs equivalent is Updater.start_polling, which is completely independent of Dispatcher, who manages the handlers

Oh. Ok. I wasn't sure. I thought infinity_polling was basically a general solution that the creator of Telebot built out of PTB.

creator of Telebot built out of PTB.

not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but pyTelegramBotAPI is not built on top of PTB - it's an independent library

creator of Telebot built out of PTB.

not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but pyTelegramBotAPI is not built on top of PTB - it's an independent library

My bad. I could've sworn I saw references to PTB.
I guess I was browsing with too many tabs. Lol

Note thattime.sleep(10) will make your bot unresponsive for 10 seconds. Maybe that's what you want - maybe it isn't. Just pointing it out.

That's what I figured. I just found it in another Telegram bot library that has aninfinity_polling method. It didn't make sense to me at the time but I added it for trial-and-error.