P2P In 15 Lines of Code

nile_list writes "Edward Felten of the very fine Freedom to Tinker has written a 15 line P2P program in Python. From the post on Freedom to Tinker, "I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless." Matthew Scala, a reader of Freedom to Tinker, has responded with the 9 line MoleSter, written in Perl."

Comments

Actually, yes.

[Kozz]

It's commonly referred to as "golf". ;) http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=golf

Re:P2P Does Not Break the Law

[Stween]

Of course P2P doesn't break the law. P2P has been around for years, long before illegal sharing of copyrighted content on P2P systems hit the limelight.

Consider: Usenet, 1979.

Parent is -1, Redundant

[miltimj]

If you'd read Skala's website, you'd see he already addresses your weak argument:

You're using Socket.pm, and it's huge, that's cheating!
Read the fucking code. I'm only using Socket.pm for its defined constants (such as SOCK_STREAM). I could easily eliminate Socket.pm, and save probably another 20 bytes or so, by replacing those constants with the numbers they represent; I have not done so yet only for portability's sake - it might make my code Linux-specific and I'd like to avoid that.

Re:Both these programs are full of BS

[swiftstream]

Years ago?

This year saw the 17th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. There's some fun stuff in there.

A more legible version of tinyp2p.py

[dstone]

Code is left intact, but here is the whitespace massaged into a more widely-accepted (and readable) convention. You see, Python isn't -that- sensitive to whitespace! ;-)


# tinyp2p.py 1.0 (documentation at http://freedom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.html)

import sys, os, SimpleXMLRPCServer, xmlrpclib, re, hmac # (C) 2004, E.W. Felten

ar, pw, res = (sys.argv, lambda u:hmac.new(sys.argv[1],u).hexdigest(), re.search)
pxy, xs = (xmlrpclib.ServerProxy, SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer)

def ls(p=""):
return filter(
lambda n: (p == "") or res(p, n),
os.listdir(os.getcwd()))

if ar[2] != "client": # license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0
myU, prs, srv = ("http://"+ar[3]+":"+ar[4], ar[5:], lambda x:x.serve_forever())

def pr(x=[]):
return ([(y in prs) or prs.append(y) for y in x] or 1) and prs

def c(n):
return ((lambda f: (f.read(), f.close()))(file(n)))[0]

f = lambda p, n, a: \
(p == pw(myU)) and (((n == 0) and pr(a)) or ((n == 1) and [ls(a)]) or c(a))

def aug(u):
return ((u == myU) and pr()) or pr(pxy(u).f(pw(u), 0, pr([myU])))

pr() and [aug(s) for s in aug(pr()[0])]

(lambda sv: sv.register_function(f, "f") or srv(sv))(xs((ar[3],int(ar[4]))))

for url in pxy(ar[3]).f(pw(ar[3]), 0, []):
for fn in filter(lambda n: not n in ls(), (pxy(url).f(pw(url), 1, ar[4]))[0]):
(lambda fi: fi.write(pxy(url).f(pw(url), 2, fn)) or fi.close())(file(fn, "wc"))