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+"""
+Demonstrates directly returning a state. In this case, an AwaitingRetry state
+which causes a task to be retried after a delay.
+"""
+
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, UTC
+
+from prefect import task, get_run_logger
+from prefect.context import get_run_context
+from prefect.states import AwaitingRetry
+
+
+@task
+def main():
+    get_run_logger().info("Running main task")
+
+    # In practice we might fetch a URL that is temporarily unavailable
+    # and retry after a number of seconds specified by a Retry-After header
+    retry_after = 10
+
+    # Break out of the retry loop after the first run
+    ctx = get_run_context()
+    if ctx.task_run.run_count > 1:
+        return
+
+    # Schedule the task to run again in {retry_after} seconds
+    return AwaitingRetry(
+        scheduled_time=datetime.now(UTC) + timedelta(seconds=retry_after)
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()