Paho MQTT client connection reliability (reconnect on disconnection)
<p>What is the most reliable way to use the Python Paho MQTT client? I want to be able to handle connection interruptions due to WiFi drops and keep trying to reconnect until it's successful.</p>

<p>What I have is the following, but are there any best practices I'm not adhering to?</p>

<pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>import argparse
from time import sleep

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt


SUB_TOPICS = ("topic/something", "topic/something_else")
RECONNECT_DELAY_SECS = 2


def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    print "Connected with result code %s" % rc
    for topic in SUB_TOPICS:
        client.subscribe(topic)

# EDIT: I've removed this function because the library handles
#       reconnection on its own anyway.
# def on_disconnect(client, userdata, rc):
#     print "Disconnected from MQTT server with code: %s" % rc
#     while rc != 0:
#         sleep(RECONNECT_DELAY_SECS)
#         print "Reconnecting..."
#         rc = client.reconnect()


def on_msg(client, userdata, msg):
    print "%s %s" % (msg.topic, msg.payload)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    p.add_argument("user")
    p.add_argument("password")
    p.add_argument("host")
    p.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=1883)
    args = p.parse_args()

    client = mqtt.Client()
    client.on_connect = on_connect
    client.on_message = on_msg
    client.username_pw_set(args.user, args.password)
    client.connect(args.host, args.port, 60)
    client.loop_start()

    try:
        while True:
            sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass
    finally:
        client.loop_stop()
</code></pre>