Calculate ideal piece length for .torrent files.
Piece Length(piecelength) is a simple package that sole purpose is to calculate
the ideal piece length for the Bittorrent protocol based on the total size of
the torrent contents. Results are returned in integer form, and will always
be a perfect power of 2.
The piecelength package can be installed from git:
git clone https://github.com/alexpdev/piecelength.git
cd piecelength
pip install .
It is also available on PyPi:
pip install piecelength
To use the package as library:
from piecelength import piece_length
size = 100000000 # some integer value
result = piece_length(size)
It can also be used from the command line:
piecelength 3456677434645
Licensed with BSD 3 see the LICENSE file for more details.
FAQs
'.torrent' metafile ideal piecelength for small file size calculator.
We found that piecelength demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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