from common.networkservices import NickServ

def process_event(self, connection, event):
    log.info('Nickname %s in use, attempting to recover: %s' % (self.network.nickname, connection.nickname))    # Log to console.

    connection.nick(connection.nickname + ''.join(random.choice(string.digits) for _ in range(3)))    # Take temporary nick. In this state recovering via NickServ won't work without changing nickname.
    NickServ.recover_nick(connection, self.network.password)    # Recover nick.