As the intent is to provide a very thin wrapping layer and play to the strengths of the original c++ library as well as python, the approach to wrapping intentionally adopts the following guidelines: ...

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.