Code AnalysisHard 60s

Retry without idempotency on a non-idempotent path

A network timeout is ambiguous. What does this handler risk?

Starter code

for attempt in range(5):
    try:
        return api.charge(order)   # POST, no idempotency key
    except Timeout:
        sleep(1)

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