pybencode

Simple bencode implementation in python.

This is only meant as a simple and readable implementation of bencoding. No optimization is made so it really should not be used in production.

The module is tested in python 2.7. Plans for python3 is on the way but currently it will not work in python3.

Usage

assuming

from bencode import encode, decode

you can do the following:

Encoding

assert encode("Hello") == "5:Hello"
assert encode(23) == "i23e"
assert encode([1, 2, 3]) == "li1ei2ei3ee"
assert encode(dict(str="Hello", list=[1, 2, 3])) == \
	'd4:listli1ei2ei3ee3:str5:Helloe'

Decoding:

assert decode(bytes("5:Hello")) == "Hello"
assert decode(bytes("i23e")) == 23
assert decode(bytes("li1ei2ei3ee")) == [1, 2, 3]
assert decode(bytes("d4:listli1ei2ei3ee3:str5:Helloe")) == \
    dict(str="Hello", list=[1, 2, 3])