Wanted to share a quick function I spun up after getting frustrated with node issues last week.

Steem Node ReCycler

It's nothing fancy and it's really not exclusively for cycling. You can use it to cycle through any Python list variable for whatever reason. I just happen to use it to cycle my nodes upon error. The code is as follows:

def node_recycler(nodes):
    myorder = []
    node_count = len(nodes)
    myorder.append(2)
    i=3
    while i < node_count+1:
        myorder.append(i)
        i+=1
    myorder.append(1)
    nodes_new = [nodes[i-1] for i in myorder]
    return nodes_new

In order to use it, just call the function during an exception which will return the new list of nodes which have been cycled with the first being moved to the last and the rest shuffled forward. For instance, if you had a list of 5 nodes, the order would now be [2,3,4,5,1].

You may then create a new Steem instance and input the new node list variable you had assigned. It should look like this.

nodes = node_recycler(nodes)
steem = Steem(nodes)

Too easy, right! Hope, this helps someone that would have otherwise been getting ready to pull out their hair.

_{Don't do that.}