[Python] elasticsearch-py add delay between retries

I'm instantiating a python elasticsearch client as follows

self.es = Elasticsearch(
hosts=ELASTICSEARCH_URL,
timeout=5,
ignore_unavailable=True,
# connection_retries=Retry(
# total=5,
# backoff_factor=1.1,
# status_forcelist=[429, 502, 503, 504],
# raise_on_status=False,
# )
)


I want to introduce a retry delay between retries (and ideally with a backoff factor). Any ideas how to achieve this?

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