Can I set max_retries for requests.request?

The Python requests module is simple and elegant but one thing bugs me. It is possible to get a requests.exception.ConnectionError with a message like: Max retries exceeded with url: ... This implies that requests can attempt to access the data several times. But there is not a single mention of this possibility anywhere in the docs. Looking at the source code I didn't find any place where I could

[taro-maru]

requestsでmax_retriesを設定する