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]

Alex wrote:

Hi all,

I want to write a "File sharing system".

Is posssible with socket and thread create multisuer connection at the same
time ?
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).
or is wrong my idea??

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]

Irmen de Jong wrote:

Alex wrote:

Hi all,

I want to write a "File sharing system".

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

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).

or is wrong my idea??

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?

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
dk******@rexx.com

[Irmen de Jong]

Dave Kuhlman wrote:

Also, you might be interested in Pyro:

http://pyro.sourceforge.net/

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