A module that mimics the json standard lib module interface for
Bencode
Install it using pip.
pip install bencode-vugBoth load and loads functions will decode bencoded data.
import bencode
decoded_dic = bencode.loads(encoded_data)
# deserializing bencoded data from a file
with open("bencoded_file.torrent", "rb") as fp:
decoded_dic = bencode.load(fp)
Pragmatically, only dictionaries are encoded in real life applications of this encoding format, but any other supported types can be singularly encoded.
import bencode
peers_dic = {b'peers': [
{b'127.0.0.1': b'29123'},
{b'127.0.0.1': b'6432'}
]}
# b'd5:peersld9:127.0.0.15:29123ed9:127.0.0.14:6432eee'
bencoded_peers = bencode.dumps(peers_dic)
# serialize an object as a bencoded stream to a file:
with open("my_bencoded_file.torrent", "rb") as fp:
bencode.dump(peers_dic, fp)