diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/asyncio/rest.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/asyncio/rest.mustache
index 9d9fc9682fb6..474413e955e6 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/asyncio/rest.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/asyncio/rest.mustache
@@ -68,7 +68,20 @@ class RESTClientObject:
         self.proxy = configuration.proxy
         self.proxy_headers = configuration.proxy_headers
 
-        self.retries = configuration.retries
+        retries = configuration.retries
+        if retries is None:
+            self._effective_retry_options = None
+        elif isinstance(retries, aiohttp_retry.RetryOptionsBase):
+            self._effective_retry_options = retries
+        elif isinstance(retries, int):
+            self._effective_retry_options = aiohttp_retry.ExponentialRetry(
+                attempts=retries,
+                factor=2.0,
+                start_timeout=0.1,
+                max_timeout=120.0
+            )
+        else:
+            self._effective_retry_options = None
 
         self.pool_manager: Optional[aiohttp.ClientSession] = None
         self.retry_client: Optional[aiohttp_retry.RetryClient] = None
@@ -191,16 +204,11 @@ class RESTClientObject:
             )
         pool_manager = self.pool_manager
 
-        if self.retries is not None and method in ALLOW_RETRY_METHODS:
+        if self._effective_retry_options is not None and method in ALLOW_RETRY_METHODS:
             if self.retry_client is None:
                 self.retry_client = aiohttp_retry.RetryClient(
                     client_session=self.pool_manager,
-                    retry_options=aiohttp_retry.ExponentialRetry(
-                        attempts=self.retries,
-                        factor=2.0,
-                        start_timeout=0.1,
-                        max_timeout=120.0
-                    )
+                    retry_options=self._effective_retry_options
                 )
             pool_manager = self.retry_client
 
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/configuration.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/configuration.mustache
index 039b2a85519f..f7602ed100a8 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/configuration.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/python/configuration.mustache
@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ class Configuration:
       values before.
     :param ssl_ca_cert: str - the path to a file of concatenated CA certificates
       in PEM format.
-    :param retries: Number of retries for API requests.
+    :param retries: Retry config; type depends on library:
+        * urllib3: int | urllib3.util.retry.Retry
+        * asyncio: int | aiohttp_retry.RetryOptionsBase
     :param ca_cert_data: verify the peer using concatenated CA certificate data
       in PEM (str) or DER (bytes) format.
     :param cert_file: the path to a client certificate file, for mTLS.
@@ -298,7 +300,7 @@ conf = {{{packageName}}}.Configuration(
         server_operation_variables: Optional[Dict[int, ServerVariablesT]]=None,
         ignore_operation_servers: bool=False,
         ssl_ca_cert: Optional[str]=None,
-        retries: Optional[int] = None,
+        retries: Optional[Union[int, Any]] = None,
         ca_cert_data: Optional[Union[str, bytes]] = None,
         cert_file: Optional[str]=None,
         key_file: Optional[str]=None,
@@ -432,7 +434,7 @@ conf = {{{packageName}}}.Configuration(
         """Safe chars for path_param
         """
         self.retries = retries
-        """Adding retries to override urllib3 default value 3
+        """Retry configuration
         """
         # Enable client side validation
         self.client_side_validation = True