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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def __retry_session(self, retries=10, backoff_factor=0.3, status_forcelist=(500, 502, 504), session=None):
 """ Retry the connection using requests if it fails. Use this as a wrapper to request from datapoint """


        # requests.Session allows finer control, which is needed to use the
        # retrying code
        the_session = session or requests.Session()

        # The Retry object manages the actual retrying
        retry = Retry(total=retries, read=retries, connect=retries,
                      backoff_factor=backoff_factor,
                      status_forcelist=status_forcelist)

        adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)

        the_session.mount('http://', adapter)
        the_session.mount('https://', adapter)

        return the_session