Renew TOR identity

renew.py

def renewTorIdentity(self, passAuth):
    try: 
        s = socket.socket() 
        s.connect(('localhost', 9051)) 
        
        s.send('AUTHENTICATE "{0}"\r\n'.format(passAuth)) 
        resp = s.recv(1024) 
        
        if resp.startswith('250'): 
            s.send("signal NEWNYM\r\n") 
            
            resp = s.recv(1024) 
        
            if resp.startswith('250'): 
                print "Identity renewed" 
            else: 
                print "response 2:", resp 
        else: 
            print "response 1:", resp 
            
        
    except Exception as e: 
        print "Can't renew identity: ", e 

Complete information here:
http://keymuck.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/renew-tor-identity-python-vidalia-bundle-automate-testing-website.html