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Entry title: Hacked up BitTorrent.
Date added:  Thursday, September 9 2004, 07:00AM
Written by:  Agilo (agilo3@gmail.com)
Entry ID:    105
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I just hacked up BitTorrent, it now downloads without asking for a folder or
file to save in/as (set it to a fixed folder) and it automatically closes once
its finished downloading, so it can start the next download (through a simple
bash script).

The reason why I did this is not because I like leeching downloads.
The reason I did this was because I'm currently downloading the entire first
season of Sailormoon (bite me :)), and I can't wake up at 4AM each day to set
up the next download.
So I needed to make it an automated process.


This was especially a nice thing to do since I've never really did anything in
Python, and this gave me a nice glimpse into it.
And, I'm impressed!
Python really is a flexible language, and extremely easy.

The above hack took me only 5 minutes!

I dare say Python is easier to learn than, say, PHP or Perl.
Then again, I already know PHP and a portion of Perl.

In any even, it's a very easy language to pick up.


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