Receiving ResponseError: (...) READONLY instead of ReadOnlyError when executing script

[goncalossilva]

Version
redis-py 5.2.0 with Redis 6.2.6

Platform
Python 3.11.3 on the latest respective docker image (python:$PYTHON_VERSION)

Description
Our code executes lua scripts, that contain various instructions (e.g., rpush). We have set up retry_on_error with a few errors, including ReadOnlyError, to more gracefully handle failovers. However, and specifically in the case of executing a script, the error will be the more general ResponseError and not ReadOnlyError.

A simplified example would be:

script = redis_client.register_script(script_text)
result = script(args=arg_list)

And if the script fails (e.g., rpush when the instance of read-only), the connection is not retried, I presume because the error is not ReadOnlyError, but ResponseError instead:

ResponseError: Error running script (call to f_1e84a64d649a247ba53ce64b0be7bbedd64fe1b4): @user_script:28: @user_script: 28: -READONLY You can't write against a read only replica.

(line 28 is rpush in this case)

I'm not sure if this is a bug or working as intended, it depends on:

• Is ReadOnlyError more appropriate than ResponseError in this case?
• Should register_script(...)() runs be retried per retry_on_error?