""" Onionr - Private P2P Communication. pick online peers in a communicator instance """ import secrets import onionrexceptions """ 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(comm_inst): """Randomly picks peer from pool without bias (using secrets module).""" ret_data = '' peer_length = len(comm_inst.onlinePeers) if peer_length <= 0: raise onionrexceptions.OnlinePeerNeeded while True: peer_length = len(comm_inst.onlinePeers) try: # Get a random online peer, securely. # May get stuck in loop if network is lost or if all peers in pool magically disconnect at once ret_data = comm_inst.onlinePeers[secrets.randbelow(peer_length)] except IndexError: pass else: break return ret_data