The seedbox.torrent.bencode Module

Encodes and Decodes messages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode)

updated to support Python 3

exception seedbox.torrent.bencode.BTFailure

Bases: exceptions.Exception

Represents any torrent failure

class seedbox.torrent.bencode.Bencached(s)

Bases: object

Cached bencode class

seedbox.torrent.bencode.bdecode(x)

Public method for decoding a message

Parameters:x – message to decode
Returns:decoded message
Return type:dict
Raises BTFailure:
 decoding failure
seedbox.torrent.bencode.bencode(x)

Public method for encoding message

Parameters:x – message
Returns:encoded string
Return type:string
seedbox.torrent.bencode.bytes(s, *args, **kwargs)
seedbox.torrent.bencode.bytes_index(s, pattern, start)

Returns the index of pattern within string starting at position start.

Parameters:
  • s (str) – byte string to search for pattern
  • pattern (str) – pattern to search for within byte string
  • start (int) – position/index within byte string to start scanning
Returns:

index of pattern within byte string
Return type:

int
seedbox.torrent.bencode.chr_(s)

Integer to character to mapping.

Return the string representing a character whose Unicode code point is the integer i.

Parameters:s (int) – integer representation of unicode character
Returns:string representation of unicode character
Return type:str
seedbox.torrent.bencode.ord_(s)

Character to integer mapping.

Given a string representing one Unicode character, return an integer representing the Unicode code point of that character.

Parameters:s (str) – string representing single unicode character
Returns:integer representation of unicode character
Return type:int