Updates link validity check to be robust against flakiness

Author: pranavm-nvidia

tripy/tests/test_ux.py

@@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ def test_links_valid(self, readme):
                 continue
 
             if link.startswith("https://"):
-                # Separating the requests.get(link) into a separate step since otherwise the
-                # pytest backtrace becomes unreadably large.
-                link_status = requests.get(link).status_code
+                link_status = None
+                for _ in range(15):  # Try several times since some links are a bit flaky
+                    try:
+                        link_status = requests.get(link).status_code
+                    except:
+                        # Suppress verbose errors
+                        pass
+                    else:
+                        break
                 assert link_status == 200, f"Broken link: {link}"
             else:
                 assert os.path.sep * 2 not in link, f"Duplicate slashes break links in GitHub. Link was: {link}"