osx - Running Bram Cohen's original BitTorrent sources (Python) -

i found old source of bram cohen's original bittorrent here:

http://bittorrent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bittorrent/?hideattic=0

(says here: where find bittorrent source code? it's version 3.x)

and i'm trying run on mac (10.7) , python version 2.7

if try , download source, can try running btdownloadcurses.py or btdownloadheadless.py

i tried running:

$ ./btdownloadcurses.py --url http://sometorrenthost/somefile.torrent

ok, i'll more specific. did:

$ ./btdownloadcurses.py --url http://torcache.net/torrent/848a6a0ec6c85507b8370e979b133214e5b5a6d4.torrent

and got:

traceback (most recent call last):   file "./btdownloadcurses.py", line 243, in <module>     run(mainerrlist, argv[1:])   file "./btdownloadcurses.py", line 186, in run     download(params, d.choosefile, d.display, d.finished, d.error, mainkillflag, fieldw)   file "/users/joal21/desktop/bittorrent/bittorrent/download.py", line 120, in download     h = urlopen(config['url'])   file "/library/frameworks/python.framework/versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen     return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)   file "/library/frameworks/python.framework/versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open     response = meth(req, response)   file "/library/frameworks/python.framework/versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 517, in http_response     code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info() attributeerror: addinfourldecompress instance has no attribute 'msg' 

when searched attributeerror, came to:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2005-may/028824.html

i think second comment has problem. don't know how else procees there. passing wrong url? have python version? or of bittorrent source being old. or there new in present .torrent files. missing? not doing?

forgive ignorance. i'm @ loss here.

bram worked against older version of python, 1 urllib2 code did not add .msg , .code attributes addinfourl objects. specifically, python version developed did not have this change applied.

the workaround copy attributes original addinfourl object in httpcontentencodinghandler class found in original zurllib.py file:

class httpcontentencodinghandler(httphandler):     """inherit , add gzip/deflate/etc support http gets."""     def http_open(self, req):         # add accept-encoding header request         # support gzip encoding (identity assumed)         req.add_header("accept-encoding","gzip")         req.add_header('user-agent', 'bittorrent/' + version)         if debug:              print "sending:"              print req.headers             print "\n"         fp = httphandler.http_open(self,req)         headers = fp.headers         if debug:               pprint.pprint(headers.dict)         url = fp.url         resp = addinfourldecompress(fp, headers, url)         resp.code = fp.code         resp.msg = fp.msg         return resp