Wait for Confirmation fails but transaction posts successfully

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from algosdk.future import transaction
transaction.wait_for_confirmation(algod_client, tx_id, 4)

I’m having an issue where wait_for_confirmation fails to confirm the transaction. I think the reason for this is because the number of rounds to wait is only set to 4.

I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts were on this and what wait for rounds should be set to to avoid pool error.

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Not sure about python, but here is the javascript implementation.

async waitForConfirmation(txId: string): Promise<A_PendingTransactionResponse> {
        const status = await this.client.status().do();
        let lastRound = status["last-round"];
        while (true) {
            const pendingInfo = await this.client.pendingTransactionInformation(txId).do();
            if (pendingInfo["confirmed-round"] !== null && pendingInfo["confirmed-round"] > 0) {
                return pendingInfo as A_PendingTransactionResponse;
            }
            lastRound++;
            await this.client.statusAfterBlock(lastRound).do();
        }
    };

This will wait for as many blocks until the transaction is confirmed.
you can do the same in python.