flatbencode

Fast, safe and thoroughly tested implementation of bencode in pure Python 3, without any C extension.

This is called flatbencode because the algorithm for decoding a bencode structure is non-recursive, thus preventing RuntimeException.

Usage

>>> from flatbencode import encode, decode
>>> encode({b'foo': [b'bar', 1]})
b'd3:fool3:bari1eee'
>>> decode(b'ldei0e0:e')
[OrderedDict(), 0, b'']

Run tests

$ pip install pytest hypothesis
$ py.test -v

Changelog

v0.3.0 (not released yet)

v0.2.1 (2016-10-22)

• Do not accept strings as dictionary keys [Antoine Catton]

v0.2.0 (2016-10-22)

• Raise an exception when there's still data left. [Tim Ruffing, #2]
• Use bytes as python dictionary keys (instead of strings) [Tim Ruffing, #2]
• Sort dictionary keys when serializing (follows the BEP-0003) [Antoine Catton]

v0.1.0 (2016-06-12)

• Initial release.
• Can decode bencoding into a python datastructure.
• Can encode a python datastructure into bencoding serialization format.