The easiest DHT to implement

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mtasic85 picture mtasic85 · Nov 10, 2009 · Viewed 17.5k times · Source

Which Distributed Hash Table (DHT) is easiest to implement in Python? Any good example that is not bloated?

I not am looking for a definition of DHT because I am more oriented and focused on design and implementation of such.

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Jochen Ritzel picture Jochen Ritzel · Nov 10, 2009

In my job I'm working with entagled. I can't say it's great code, but it seems to be the only Kademlia implementation for Python around.

I think Kademlia has become the default DHT for most applications today, because it's quite simple and has fast lookups. At least in the academic world that I've seen so far.

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