Python module / script to parse a torrent file to a python object. I just wrote this for fun one evening, and to learn a bit more about the torrent file format.

See http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html for more info.

The decode method accepts a bytes object and returns a list.

bencode.py is the module. example.py is an example script that loads a torrent file and prettyprints the python object to a file.

Example:

>>>importbencode>>>>>>withopen("archlinux-2013.04.01-dual.iso.torrent", 'rb') asfh:
... torrent_data=fh.read()
... >>>torrent=bencode.decode(torrent_data)
>>>>>>print("announce: ", torrent[0][b'announce'])
announce: b'http://tracker.archlinux.org:6969/announce'>>>print("name: ", torrent[0][b'info'][b'name'])
name: b'archlinux-2013.04.01-dual.iso'>>>