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Resolutions

Huw Lynes — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:10:26 +0000

Or should that be vague plans?

Attend FOSDEM. I’ve been incredibly lazy the last few years and haven’t attended.
Try to prevent the PET Centre from eating my life. This is probably more of a vain hope than a resolution.
Buy a flat or learn to drive. Because unless I make it an either/or I will do neither.
Attend the spring UKUUG meeting. Understanding kerberos is probably a worthwhile endeavour even if I never use it.
Skate more. Assuming we actually get a summer this year it shouldn’t be to hard to top the dismal amount of skating I did last year.
Attend at least one observing night of the Cardiff Astronomical Society to remember what the night sky is supposed to look like.
Migrate Peapod to a sensible modern XML library to fix some of its more annoying bugs
Make an effort to visit friends. Which is just code for be less of a social hermit.

Peapod 0.7

Huw Lynes — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:37:32 +0000

A long weekend is always a good time for a new release. So without further ado I give you Peapod 0.7

Notable bug-fixes include improved syncing with ipods and some clean-up of the verbose output so that it makes more sense.

For those of you who don’t know: peapod is a command-line podcast downloader written in python.

Making a Minimalist Bittorrent Client

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I spent the weekend sorting out bittorrent support in Peapod so that it
wasn't quite such a mess. Previously I had hacked a version of
btdownloadheadless.py so that it would exit when the download
completed. I was then shelling out to this from within Peapod.
Obviously this is a less than ideal situation partly because it meant I had to escape URLs from the shell. So I hacked away at btdownloadheadless.py until I had a simple class I could call to do the bittorrent download. It gives almost no feedback
except a return code upon completion of the download.

from btclient import mytorrent
url = "http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent"
save_dir = /tmp
torrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir)
ret = torrent.run()
sys.exit(ret)

If you wanted to carry on seeding rather than exiting on completion you could do:

torrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir,selfish=0)
torrent.run()

I then added a name == "__main__" section into btclient so that it can be used a simple bittorrent client.
btclient.py http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent /tmp
or to seed:
btclient.py http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/audio/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent /tmp seed

btclient.py can be downloaded from here or alternatively see our subversion repository where the latest version can always be found.

Hopefully someone will find this useful.

A Pythonic Podcatcher

Administrator — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A friend and I have been hacking on a replacement for bashpodder. It's
taken a while but it's now very usable. Any thoughts greatly
appreciated.

I present Peapod