Python - Controlling Tor

Question

I\'m attempting to control Tor with Python. I\'ve read a couple of the other questions asked about this subject on stackoverflow but none of them answer this question.

Answer 1

You can use a similar code in python:

def renewTorIdentity(self, passAuth):
    try:
        s = socket.socket()
        s.connect(('localhost', 9051))
        s.send('AUTHENTICATE "{0}"\r\n'.format(passAuth))
        resp = s.recv(1024)

        if resp.startswith('250'):
            s.send("signal NEWNYM\r\n")
            resp = s.recv(1024)

            if resp.startswith('250'):
                print "Identity renewed"
            else:
                print "response 2:", resp

        else:
            print "response 1:", resp

    except Exception as e:
        print "Can't renew identity: ", e 

You can check this post for a mini-tutorial