def get_url(url):
"""Downloads the .torrent metainfo file specified by the passed
URL and returns data, the raw contents of the metainfo file.
Any exception raised while trying to obtain the metainfo file
is caught and GetTorrent.URLException is raised instead.
"""
data = None
err_str = (
(_('Could not download or open "%s"') % url) + "\n" + _("Try using a web browser to download the torrent file.")
)
u = None
# pending protocol changes, convert:
# torrent://http://path.to/file
# and:
# bittorrent://http://path.to/file
# to:
# http://path.to/file
url = urlpat_torrent.sub("", url)
url = urlpat_bittorrent.sub("", url)
try:
u = zurllib.urlopen(url)
data = u.read()
u.close()
except Exception, e:
if u is not None:
u.close()
raise URLException(err_str + "\n(%s)" % e)
def get_language(name):
from BTL import LOCALE_URL
url = LOCALE_URL + name + ".tar.gz"
socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
r = urllib.urlopen(url)
# urllib seems to ungzip for us
tarname = os.path.join(locale_root, name + ".tar")
f = file(tarname, 'wb')
f.write(r.read())
f.close()
tar = tarfile.open(tarname, "r")
for tarinfo in tar:
tar.extract(tarinfo, path=locale_root)
tar.close()
