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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 delete(self, *args, **kwargs):
 """ This method implements retries for object deletion. """

        count = 0
        max_retries=3
        while True:
            try:
                return super(BaseModel, self).delete(*args, **kwargs)
            except django.db.utils.OperationalError:
                if count >= max_retries:
                    raise
                count += 1