Okays, thanks a lot Sir for help. I will start understanding the content of the files mentioned by you.
Akshit On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Neil M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure! A lot of what is there is effectively unused code in > experimenting with running Python as a Java or Silverlight browser > applet. You can ignore that. The important files to start with > (probably in this order): > > 1. metalink.py - This defines the main data structures, based on the > Metalink XML format. This also shows how metalink files are read and > written. There is some support for similar formats in there too, > RSS/Atom and Jigdo. There are clearly commented and can be ignored. > This supports both Metalink v3 and Metalink v4, each has its object type > and you'll see functions to convert between the two. > > 2. download.py - This does the heavy lifting and is the primary > interface to the various user interfaces and for other developers. You > can think of it as a generic Python download library that supports > special formats like Metalink, RSS/Atom, and Jidgo. There are two main > download engines in it, "NormalManager" which does a typical incremental > file download from a single URL. "Segment_Manager" does a lot of fancy > things, it opens multiple threads and uses the HTTP Range header to grab > parts of a file from multiple URLs (if known). > > 3. checker.py - File that provides functions to check the URLs in a > Metalink file. metalink.py actually parses the metalink files into > objects, then we use these functions to help someone publishing metalink > files validate their output. This is not required for metalink > consumers that only want to download metalink files, for example GGet. > > 4. console.py - Command line user interface implementation that provides > both checking and downloading functions. > > 5. guitk.py - Tk graphical user interface that provides checking > functions only. See GGet for a GUI with download functions. > > Less interesting, but still used files: > > 6. GPG.py - GPG system call wrapper to verify signatures, if provided. > This is a good exercise in seeing how to make system calls from Python > and parsing the output. It is not critical to understanding what is > going on as it is not used often. > > 7. proxy.py - Tries to automatically add proxy support if a proxy is > configured on the system. Python doesn't have very good proxy support > and this is a generic module to try to fix that, at least for our > purposes. It is probably interesting if you want to understand more > about how proxies work, but should otherwise be transparent in the rest > of the code. > > That's all. Everything else is support files for converting the Python > to .exe or packaging it for release. You can literally copy those seven > files to your own directory and all the features should work. > > Neil > > On 4/5/2013 5:41 AM, Akshit Agarwal wrote: > > Neil Sir or Anthony Sir can you please specify the files in > > link http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/metalinks/browser/checker from > > which I should start understanding the code of Metalink Checker. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > Visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/metalink-discussion/CqT08j8ZSvA/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
