[Xmpppy-devel] Waiting for /dev/random on import xmpp

[Patrick N. <ma...@pa...>]

Hi,

I just discovered xmpppy (which is great, thanks!), and I am a Python newbie.

When I try using xmpppy with the example script, it often (but not always) 
hangs when I call the script. strace tells me, that it's waiting for data from 
/dev/random. This happens during the 'import xmpp' call. Now, this probably 
doesn't happen on busy systems, where /dev/random always has numbers, but on 
my quiet home server, it's definitely annoying.

Since I'm a Python newbie, I don't know how things are done there, but from my 
experience just doing 'import <library>' shouldn't do complex things that can 
go wrong or take a long time, such as getting a random number from 
/dev/random. Wouldn't be the xmpp.Client constructor (or however that is 
called in Python land) be a better place for that?

Thanks,
Patrick.

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