Dear Tor Developers,

in my application, a client connects to a server via:
client_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
client_socket.connect(ip,port)

I want to replace these two lines to create a client_socket whose IP address cannot be seen by the server. The application is e-polling.

I looked into

• torpy (too many timeouts),
• socks (requires too much external configuration),
• and I have tor installed (unknown how to use from within python).
  

I just need a replacement for the two-liner code above.

The ideal solution: is device & OS agnostic, portable, uses no peripherals or configuration (i.e., just one pip package to install), and works reliably.

Thus, the below torpy solution would have been ideal if it had worked reliably:

from torpy import TorClient # pip install torpy

class Torsocket:

    def __init__(self,ip,port):
        self.mgr1    = TorClient()
        self.tor     = type(self.mgr1).__enter__(self.mgr1)
        self.mgr2    = self.tor.create_circuit(3)
        self.circuit = type(self.mgr2).__enter__(self.mgr2)
        self.mgr3    = self.circuit.create_stream((ip,port))
        self.socket  = type(self.mgr3).__enter__(self.mgr3)
    def send(self,data):
        self.socket.send(data)
    def recv(self,size):
        return self.socket.recv(size)
    def __del__(self):
        for bla in [self.mgr3,self.mgr2,self.mgr1]: type(bla).__exit__(bla, None, None, None)

It replaces the two-liner from the beginning with the below one-liner
client_socket = Torsocket(*server_data.server_address)

My questions/requests:
- Is torpy connected to the real tor network (or is it a little toy twin)? If it is the real tor network then I will close this issue and open another one.

- Are practical solutions available to my problem already?, and which of them works best for user-friendliness?

- Can a pip package for a torsocket be made, as described above? i.e., something like torpy, but connecting to the real network?

- Can I offer anything so that the ideal solution would be crafted and packaged?*

*) If it helps, I could tell a lot about my project and how I believe it is significant and will be for the greater good of people. It is a fully implemented 1000LOC LSAG+WOT decentral P2P e-polling program with GUI that shall return trust and sovereignty into the people's hands. The only missing bit is a reliable tor connection.