Question

While browsing about changing identity with tor I have the following script:

from TorCtl import TorCtl

conn = TorCtl.connect(controlAddr="127.0.0.1", controlPort=9051, passphrase="123")

TorCtl.Connection.send_signal(conn, "NEWNYM")

But I get this error:

Connection refused. Is the ControlPort enabled?
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "python_tor.py", line 18, in <module>
    TorCtl.Connection.send_signal(conn, "NEWNYM")
TypeError: unbound method send_signal() must be called with Connection instance as first argument (got NoneType instance instead)

And What shoul be the passphrase? I have tried without passphrase the same error occurs.

Answer 1

I think you should do

conn.send_signal("NEWNYM")

You could try printing conn in between the calls. See if it’s None. Maybe the connection failed.