File sharing

[Alex]

Hi all,

I want to write a "File sharing system".

Is posssible with socket and thread create multisuer connection at the same
time ?

or is wrong my idea??

thanks
Alex

[Irmen de Jong]

Re: File sharing

Alex wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I want to write a "File sharing system".
>
> Is posssible with socket and thread create multisuer connection at the same
> time ?[/color]

Yes. You can use multiple sockets and a thread per connection,
or you can use one of Python's event driven frameworks to handle
lots of concurrent connections (Twisted, for instance).
[color=blue]
> or is wrong my idea??[/color]

I don't know, but have a look at BitTorrent.
That is an existing popular file sharing system written in Python.

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

No need reinventing the wheel, right?

--Irmen de Jong

[Dave Kuhlman]

Re: File sharing

Irmen de Jong wrote:
[color=blue]
> Alex wrote:[color=green]
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to write a "File sharing system".
>>
>> Is posssible with socket and thread create multisuer connection
>> at the same time ?[/color]
>
> Yes. You can use multiple sockets and a thread per connection,
> or you can use one of Python's event driven frameworks to handle
> lots of concurrent connections (Twisted, for instance).
>[color=green]
>> or is wrong my idea??[/color]
>
> I don't know, but have a look at BitTorrent.
> That is an existing popular file sharing system written in Python.
>
> http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
>
> No need reinventing the wheel, right?[/color]

Also, you might be interested in Pyro:

http://pyro.sourceforge.net/

Pyro claims to support remote objects. Perhaps you could
represent files with remote objects.

OK. I admit. It's a stretch. But, if you want to simulate file
sharing across the *Net* ...

- Dave

--
Dave Kuhlman

http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman

dkuhlman@rexx.c om

[Irmen de Jong]

Re: File sharing

Dave Kuhlman wrote:
[color=blue]
> Also, you might be interested in Pyro:
>
> http://pyro.sourceforge.net/[/color]

LOL, that should have been my comment ;-)

I know of a few Pyro projects that actually *do* use Pyro
to transfer files across the network. One of them is rather
interesting, the files are digital images produced by an
earth-orbiting sattelite.. :-)

--Irmen