Quickstart

Encode Data

For example:

>>> from bencoding import bencode
>>> ping = {'t':'aa', 'y':'q', 'q':'ping', 'a':{'id':'abcdefghij0123456789'}}
>>> ping_bencode = bencode(ping)
>>> ping_bencode
b'd1:ad2:id20:abcdefghij0123456789e1:q4:ping1:y1:q1:t2:aae'

Decode Data

For example:

>>> from bencoding import bdecode
>>> ping_bdecode = bdecode(ping_bencode)
>>> ping_bdecode
OrderedDict([(b'a', OrderedDict([(b'id', b'abcdefghij0123456789')])), (b'q', b'ping'), (b'y', b'q'), (b't', b'aa')])

Your can use to parse torrent file.

with open('ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent', 'rb') as f:
    data = bdecode(f.read())
    print(data[b'info'][b'name'].decode())