python error in BitTorrent 5.0.8

whysyn · 06-27-2007, 04:00 PM

I get the following message when attempting to run bittorrent-curses.py or bittorrent.py:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bittorrent.py", line 22, in ?
    from BitTorrent.translation import _
  File "/home/foouser/client/BitTorrent-5.0.8/BitTorrent/__init__.py", line 49, in ?
    from BitTorrent.platform import get_temp_subdir, get_dot_dir, is_frozen_exe
  File "/home/foouser/client/BitTorrent-5.0.8/BitTorrent/platform.py", line 117, in ?
    import BitTorrent.zurllib as urllib
  File "/home/foouser/client/BitTorrent-5.0.8/BitTorrent/zurllib.py", line 16, in ?
    user_agent = PeerID.make_id()
  File "/home/foouser/client/BitTorrent-5.0.8/BitTorrent/PeerID.py", line 20, in make_id
    myid = padded + os.urandom(6).encode('hex')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urandom'

Any ideas?

Thanks!

maroonbaboon · 06-28-2007, 10:05 AM

I think you need to upgrade to python 2.4.

whysyn · 06-28-2007, 02:11 PM

Well, that did the trick (that, and about 15 other dependencies). It turned into a major pain since this is a box hosted remotely in a colo. It's headless and didn't run X or have wx, GTK, and many other things installed =/

Now, I'm getting an odd tracker error:

Code:

[18:30:09] Problem connecting to tracker (http://whatever): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

maroonbaboon · 06-28-2007, 05:58 PM

I believe this is a bug common to various clients using this python code. It's crashed by non-ASCII characters - accented letters would be the big culprit, e.g. in song titles. You can try editing the torrent file to replace accented letters by non-accented ones, but this gets a bit tricky as the file is mainly binary.

Someone should really tell the authors or provide a patch.