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

[Norman R. <no...@ra...>]

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Patrick Nagel <ma...@pa...>wrote:

> 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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