RE: Broadcatching

Hi!

> I want to automate BitTorrent downloads with the PyDS aggregator.

If I understand it correctly, the BitTorrent integration is just standard
RSS enclosures with BitTorrent URLs. So actually Python has everything ready
to support it - only a pythonic BitTorrent URL handler is missing. PyDS
already supports enclosures: the EnclosureTool encapsulates most of the
support. The EnclosureTool._enclosureFetch gives the enclosures URL to the
DownstreamTool.download method. That one just hands that URL over to a
UrlOpener that's actually urllib.UrlOpener or urllib.FancyUrlOpener.
Actually it's special subclasses on those, so you might be able to hook your
code into those classes. The only thing that's needed is either a python
implementation of a BitTorrent client, or some commandline tool that you can
call via popen2. Only problem is, it must be portable over all platforms
PyDS is running on ...

bye, Georg