New identity with TOR and Stem

Question

Stem officials docs says that new identity is established by the following:

from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller

with Controller.from_port(port = 9051) as controller:
    controller.authenticate()
    controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)

And below is my code:

import urllib2

from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller

def connect():
    with Controller.from_port(port=9051) as controller:
        controller.authenticate(my_pass)  
        controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)

for i in range(5):
    connect()
    print urllib2.urlopen('http://icanhazip.com/').read().strip()

However the ip address does not change.

ps. Yes, I've edited the torrc file.

p2. I am aware of this and that threads.

Any ideas?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27656298/ip-remains-unchanged/27657475#27657475 — Padraic Cunningham, Jun 29 '16 at 07:38
What is your code to make urllib use Tor's SOCKS proxy? Right now it looks like it should just be using your regular internet connection. — drew010, Jun 29 '16 at 16:17
You're using urllib2 with your real IP and not through tor, you need to set the proxy — Zorgatone, May 16 '17 at 14:39

Einstein · Answer 1 · 2017-09-18T00:58:31.050

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you will have to wait until a new nym is available: if controller.is_newnym_available(): controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)

edited Sep 18 '17 at 00:58

answered Sep 04 '17 at 17:37

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