Sleeping and retrying for a long time

[valankar]

I was getting some long hangs in my script and it boiled down to:

yahoofinancials/yahoofinancials/data.py

Line 565 in 2f2cc6c

while i < 250:

This is retrying a sleep in a loop for 250 times. I'm not sure why 250 was chosen, but could there be an option to disable this or provide a limit to the timeout?

I see there is a timeout option:

yahoofinancials/yahoofinancials/yf.py

Line 67 in 2f2cc6c

timeout: int, default 30, optional

but it doesn't seem to apply here?

[JECSand]

@valankar Tbh that was sort of a hack to work around the random errors yahoo finance was returning. When I implemented this, it was an effective way of brute forcing a response.

I'm waiting for Yahoo Finance to become more stable before I completely refactor this library. I suspect they are in the middle of a tech stack overhaul similar to 2017's.

If you have a more effective manner to handle this, I'll be more than happy to review and merge in a PR. I'm slammed with work and won't be able to really address anything on my end until April.