Please update / remove from pypi

[dreua]

Originally sent to [email protected] but since his mail does not exist anymore posting this here.

Hello Thomas,

the bencode Package you distribute via pypi does not work with recent Python (3.7.7). I get the error:

$ python3
Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 13 2020, 10:23:39)
[GCC 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bencode
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/da/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bencode/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from BTL import BTFailure
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'BTL' 

Please consider updating or removing this module since it is wasting peoples' time. There are working alternatives like bencode.py so removal would be a viable option.

Best regards

[alx-xlx]

What are it's alternatives ?

[dreua]

I think I ended up using, bencode-open: https://github.com/imachug/bencode-open https://pypi.org/project/bencode-open/

[magbone]

You can try this repo, I update the python version to 3.9(maybe 3.x also can work). Note that the argument type of bdecode function is str, you should decode with latin_1 encoding first.