Torrent name assignment

[Aesthermortis]

I am trying to get the program to use the name of the file as the name it will show in the torrent but the torrent is not created. using a bat file

the torrent is not created if the name contains parentheses

-n "%~nx1" %*

[rsnitsch]

What is -n "%~nx1" %* evaluated to on your system? What does the full command look like which executes py3createtorrent? (With all placeholders evaluated.)

[Aesthermortis]

to get the file name and extension "%~nx1"

py3createtorrent -P -q -d -2 --md5 -c "xD" -t tracker -n "%~nx1" -o "%outputdir%\%~n1[tracker name] %~n1.torrent" %*

[rsnitsch]

What is the actual full command called, after the placeholders have been replaced with the variable values?

[Aesthermortis]

file name contains (2020) the torrent is created if I remove the parentheses

[rsnitsch]

For me it works. It is probably a problem with your BAT file. It is important to know what the actual full RESOLVED commandline looks like (after placeholders have been replaced with actual values).

My test output:

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\TorrentTest                                                       
λ pip install py3createtorrent                                                            
Collecting py3createtorrent                                                               
  Using cached py3createtorrent-1.0.0b1-py3-none-any.whl (13 kB)                          
Collecting bencode.py                                                                     
  Downloading bencode.py-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (18 kB)                               
Installing collected packages: bencode.py, py3createtorrent                               
Successfully installed bencode.py-4.0.0 py3createtorrent-1.0.0b1                          

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\TorrentTest                                                       
λ py3createtorrent.exe "test(parentheses).dot"                                            
Successfully created torrent:                                                             
  Name:                test(parentheses).dot                                              
  Size:                4 KiB                                                              
  Pieces:              1 x 16 KiB                                                         
  Comment:             created with py3createtorrent v1.0.0b1                             
  Private:             no                                                                 
  Creation date:       2021-01-08 11:49:26                                                
  DHT bootstrap nodes: (none)                                                             
  Webseeds:            (none)                                                             
  Primary tracker:     (none)                                                             
  Backup trackers:                                                                        
    (none)                                                                                

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\TorrentTest                                                       
λ py3createtorrent.exe "test(parentheses).dot" -o "custom-name-with-(parentheses).torrent"
Successfully created torrent:                                                             
  Name:                test(parentheses).dot                                              
  Size:                4 KiB                                                              
  Pieces:              1 x 16 KiB                                                         
  Comment:             created with py3createtorrent v1.0.0b1                             
  Private:             no                                                                 
  Creation date:       2021-01-08 11:50:19                                                
  DHT bootstrap nodes: (none)                                                             
  Webseeds:            (none)                                                             
  Primary tracker:     (none)                                                             
  Backup trackers:                                                                        
    (none)                                                                                

C:\Users\Robert\Desktop\TorrentTest                                                       
λ ls -l                                                                                   
total 10                                                                                  
-rw-r--r-- 1 Robert 197121  226 Jan  8 11:50 'custom-name-with-(parentheses).torrent'     
-rw-r--r-- 1 Robert 197121 4592 Jan  8 11:27 'test(parentheses).dot'                      
-rw-r--r-- 1 Robert 197121  226 Jan  8 11:49 'test(parentheses).dot.torrent'             

[Aesthermortis]

py3createtorrent.py: error: Invalid name: 'camila (2020).aac'. Allowed chars: AZ, a-z, 0-9, any of {.,-} plus spaces.

[rsnitsch]

Ok, I got it. Will be fixed soon.

[rsnitsch]

Fixed in 1.0.0b2. Please upgrade with pip install --upgrade py3createtorrent