in my github actions unit test i am running some pywikibot code (pywikibot 6.6.3) that some times fails due to the site not being responsive or a misconfiguration. The log report used to show the error messages after a few minutes.
Now the code runs some 2 hours and more with hint such as:
... Waiting 120.0 seconds before retrying.
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.7/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 1883, in wait
Error: raise TimeoutError('Maximum retries attempted without success.')
pywikibot.exceptions.TimeoutError: Maximum retries attempted without success.
But there is no mention how to change the retries and timeout values?
I found the source code at https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/data/api.py
But since the api init is called indirectly i need to know how the configuration is to be done to get less retries and quicker timeout
https://stackoverflow.com/a/39062902/1497139
even has a precise hint what to change but no source code example for this so i still don't know what the python code should look to modify outside of the config file during the initialization phase.
How could i change the settings to get a quick fail mode which is appropriate for the tests?
the style of setting the variables is:
import pywikibot
pywikibot.config.max_retries=2
I was just not believing that the wikimedia foundation still uses global variables for configuration ...