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libp2p for Python

An experiment to see if i can understand the specs of libp2p protocol and then try to implement it in python. this was forked from amstocker/python-libp2p

This is what I want to currently only implements:

• Interface peer routing

  A valid (read: that follows this abstraction) stream muxer, must implement the following API. Find peers 'responsible' or 'closest' to a given key:

  class PeerRouting(object)
    def find_peers(key)
      """
      Args:
        key: key is a multihash (https://github.com/multiformats/multihash)
      Returns:
        An iterable of peers ordered by closeness
      """

  In a peer to peer context, the concept of 'responsability' or 'closeness' for a given key translates to having a way to find deterministically or that at least there is a significant overlap between searches, the same group of peers when searching for the same given key.

  This method will query the network (route it) and return a Priority Queue datastructe with a list of PeerInfo objects, ordered by 'closeness'.