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Replace except google.api_core.exceptions.ResourceExhausted with except genai.errors.APIError as e (or ClientError for 4xx-only handlers).\n2. Treat e.code in (429, 503) (verify against your telemetry) for rate limit and overload retries.\n3. Update logging expectations: str(e) follows '{code} {status}. {details}' from genai APIError.__init__.\n4. 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