Piece Length
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.
Install
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
Usage
To use the package as library:
from piecelength import piece_length
size = 100000000
result = piece_length(size)
It can also be used from the command line:
piecelength 3456677434645
License
Licensed with BSD 3 see the LICENSE file for more details.