Python and Napster

[Erno Kuusela]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

| HTTP (and the Python tools around it) is great for file transfer (and
| suchlike) but it's not oriented to peer-to-peer at all.

<rant>with the present rate of destruction of the end-to-end internet, http
is rapidly becoming the only protocol that can traverse through the
various nats and firewalls and god knows what.</rant>

besides, it's not that bad for file sharing imho. just add
a couple of methos, or maybe use something like webdav as the basis.

  -- erno