""" Onionr - Private P2P Communication. pick online peers in a communicator instance """ import secrets from typing import TYPE_CHECKING import onionrexceptions if TYPE_CHECKING: from deadsimplekv import DeadSimpleKV """ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . """ def pick_online_peer(kv: 'DeadSimpleKV'): """Randomly picks peer from pool without bias (using secrets module).""" ret_data = '' peer_length = len(kv.get('onlinePeers')) if peer_length <= 0: raise onionrexceptions.OnlinePeerNeeded while True: peer_length = len(kv.get('onlinePeers')) try: # Get a random online peer, securely. # May get stuck in loop if network is lost ret_data = kv.get('onlinePeers')[secrets.randbelow(peer_length)] except IndexError: pass else: break return ret_data