Is it possible to enable retry mechanism by default

[ofen]

I find retry mechanism implementation in telebot/apihelper.py is quite useful due to network nature. Is it possible to enable it by default (see https://github.com/eternnoir/pyTelegramBotAPI/blob/master/telebot/apihelper.py#L38)?

P.S. currently it could be enabled manually via

import telebot

telebot.apihelper.RETRY_ON_ERROR = True
...

[Badiboy]

What is the problem with enabling it manually?

[ofen]

it's just my opinion but this reduce configuration bloat and allow users to work with lib out-of-the-box without using try/catch on each bot method or reading apihelper.py code to find this feature.

[coder2020official]

@Badiboy do you think it is good to be True by default? I think setting True by default will be better

[Badiboy]

@coder2020official I had no strong oppinion on this question. But I stand for saving behavior compatibility.

Simple example. In my project I prefer short user sessions instead of 100% message delivery. Because of haveing dozens of users.

I have 10 seconds connection timeout. If you change RETRY_ON_ERROR = True for me, in some unpredictable cases I'll have:
(connection_timeout (10) + RETRY_TIMEOUT (2)) * MAX_RETRIES (15) = 180.

180 seconds sessions.

How do you think, what words I'll say to developers who will change MY SYSTEM behaviour to this?

[coder2020official]

Well, retrying on error by default would be good, but ok, let it stay how it was

[coder2020official]

Can we close this issue?