From 46ca2b8bcd570fd8eb825d622283164c83908869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Chainz <me@adamj.eu>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:23:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Cloudformation - remove dead invoke_with_throttling_retries
 function (#5690)

Unused since f040d63403f6c459a278918fa48fa8cb87754506.
---
 lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/cloudformation.py | 14 --------------
 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/cloudformation.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/cloudformation.py
index 6c6a117e92..582e7346ce 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/cloudformation.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/cloudformation.py
@@ -348,20 +348,6 @@ def get_stack_facts(cfn, stack_name):
 
     return stack_info
 
-IGNORE_CODE = 'Throttling'
-MAX_RETRIES=3
-def invoke_with_throttling_retries(function_ref, *argv, **kwargs):
-    retries=0
-    while True:
-        try:
-            retval=function_ref(*argv, **kwargs)
-            return retval
-        except Exception as e:
-            # boto way of looking for retries
-            #if e.code != IGNORE_CODE or retries==MAX_RETRIES:
-            raise e
-        time.sleep(5 * (2**retries))
-        retries += 1
 
 def main():
     argument_spec = ansible.module_utils.ec2.ec2_argument_spec()