README.md

pybencode

Simple bencode library for python

Requirements

• python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Installation

pip install cpyberry-pybencode

Usage

import pybencode


pybencode.encode(256)  # return b"i256e"

pybencode.encode(b"neko")  # return b"4:neko"

pybencode.encode([1, 2, 3])  # return b"li1ei2ei3ee"

pybencode.encode({1: b"kuro", 2: b"sakura"})
# return b"di1e4:kuroi2e6:sakurae"

Nested lists and dicts can also be encoded.

pybencode.encode([b"cat", 1024, [b"meow", b"woof"]])
# return b"l3:cati1024el4:meow4:woofee"

pybencode.encode({1: {b"yuki": b"ghost"}})
# return b"di1ed4:yuki5:ghostee"

Decode can do the opposite of the above.

Similarly, you can decode nested list and dict.

pybencode.decode(b"5:night")  # return "night"
pybencode.decode(b"i128e")  # return 128

python.decode(b"di1ed4:yuki5:ghostee")
# return {1: {b"yuki": b"ghost"}}

python.decode(b"l3:cati1024el4:meow4:woofee")
# return [b"cat", 1024, [b"meow", b"woof"]]

If you want to encode the string to bencode format, you need to encode it with any character code first.

For example

string = "coppelia"
pybencode.encode(string.encode("latin-1"))