Allow Custom Sleep Function

[stevenjackson121]

I think it would be great to add a sleep argument which defaults to asyncio.sleep to improve support for event loops besides asyncio, while keeping it working out of the box for asyncio. I like backoff and would like to stick with it, but it ended up being too much of a hassle to get it working with trio.

tenacity has this feature, with the following syntax/explanation.

You can even use alternative event loops such as curio or Trio by passing the correct sleep function:
    
    @retry(sleep=trio.sleep)
    async def my_async_function(loop):
        await asks.get('https://example.org')

[bgreen-litl]

Is this just as simple as awaiting a different sleep function here?

https://github.com/litl/backoff/blob/master/backoff/_async.py#L94

if I'm understanding it looks like this would be very easy to accomodate

[stevenjackson121]

Yes. That should be it! (Of course also adding keyword argument and passing it through as well)

[jmehnle]

No traction on this? :( FYI, tenacity is converging on a solution that not only allows passing in a specific sleep function (it already supports this) but automatically detects whether to use asyncio.sleep or trio.sleep: jd/tenacity#463