I'd recommend transmission. You can get the source from
http://transmission.m0k.org/. You can configure it for console use
with
./configure --disable-gtk gmake. It needs GNU make, BSD make won't
work. Uses very little resources as it's written in C, so your python
port won't matter.
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Hello,
Due to the recent security advisor, I upgraded my python port. Foolishly,
I managed to upgrade from version 2.4 to 2.5, which forced me to also upgrade
my bittorrent port (from version 3.x to 4.20.2_1,1). Unfortunately, I now
find that the bittorrent console app