alexpdev / piecelength

Calculating Ideal Piece Length for .torrent files

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 # some integer value
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.