This library is not updated. You can use tenacity.
doc: https://tenacity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You can log before or after
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr, level=logging.DEBUG)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@retry(stop=stop_after_attempt(3), before=before_log(logger, logging.DEBUG))
def raise_my_exception():
raise MyException("Fail")