import fec import array def encode_file(inf, cb, k, m, chunksize=4096): """ Read in the contents of inf, encode, and call cb with the results. First, k "input shares" will be read from inf, each input share being of size chunksize. Then these k shares will be encoded into m "result shares". Then cb will be invoked, passing a list of the m result shares as its first argument, and the length of the encoded data as its second argument. (The length of the encoded data is always equal to k*chunksize, until the last iteration, when the end of the file has been reached and less than k*chunksize bytes could be read from the file.) This procedure is iterated until the end of the file is reached, in which case the space of the input shares that is unused is filled with zeroes before encoding. Note that the sequence passed in calls to cb() contains mutable array objects in its first k elements whose contents will be overwritten when the next segment is read from the input file. Therefore the implementation of cb() has to either be finished with those first k arrays before returning, or if it wants to keep the contents of those arrays for subsequent use after it has returned then it must make a copy of them to keep. @param inf the file object from which to read the data @param cb the callback to be invoked with the results @param k the number of shares required to reconstruct the file @param m the total number of shares created @param chunksize how much data to read from inf for each of the k input shares """ enc = fec.Encoder(k, m) l = tuple([ array.array('c') for i in range(k) ]) indatasize = k*chunksize # will be reset to shorter upon EOF ZEROES=array.array('c', ['\x00'])*chunksize while indatasize == k*chunksize: # This loop body executes once per segment. i = 0 while (i