one more attempt -- I wish that I could run the pylint locally

Author: mdeneen

pymodbus/client/base.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from pymodbus.transport import CommParams
 
 
-class ModbusBaseClient(ModbusClientMixin[Awaitable[ModbusPDU]]):
+class ModbusBaseClient(ModbusClientMixin[Awaitable[ModbusPDU, int]]):
     """**ModbusBaseClient**.
 
     :mod:`ModbusBaseClient` is normally not referenced outside :mod:`pymodbus`.

pymodbus/transaction/transaction.py

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def sync_execute(self, no_response_expected: bool, request: ModbusPDU) -> tuple[
             while count_retries <= self.retries:
                 self.pdu_send(request)
                 if no_response_expected:
-                    return ExceptionResponse(0xff)
+                    return ExceptionResponse(0xff), count_retries
                 try:
                     return self.sync_get_response(request.dev_id, request.transaction_id), count_retries
                 except asyncio.exceptions.TimeoutError:
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ async def execute(self, no_response_expected: bool, request: ModbusPDU) -> tuple
                 self.response_future = asyncio.Future()
                 self.pdu_send(request)
                 if no_response_expected:
-                    return ExceptionResponse(0xff)
+                    return ExceptionResponse(0xff), count_retries
                 try:
                     response = await asyncio.wait_for(
                         self.response_future, timeout=self.comm_params.timeout_connect