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I'm getting a lot of 503 non-JSON response warnings when saving large pages.

A lot of these supposedly failed attempts to save a page secretly succeed
so I want to trap the failure, read the page, and check if it already is in the state that I wanted to write, otherwise I'd just try again.

Now pywikipediabot tries again by itself an apparently infinite amount of times
Despite having set max_retries to 2 in my user-config.py

Here is  a paste excerpt from my output (not the two times I forced a keyboard interrupt by Ctrl-C to abort the fruitless retries and enter my manual retry loop, which immediately detects that the save was indeed successful)

http://pastebin.com/Xq1TRtns