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Installation
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The easiest (and best) way to install kademlia is through `pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/>`_::
$ pip install kademlia
Usage
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To start a new network, create the first node. Future nodes will connect to this first node (and any other nodes you know about) to create the network.
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/first_node.py
Here's an example of bootstrapping a new node against a known node and then setting a value:
.. literalinclude:: ../examples/set.py
.. note ::
You must have at least two nodes running to store values. If a node tries to store a value and there are no other nodes to provide redundancy, then it is an exception state.
Running Tests
=============
To run tests::
$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
$ pytest
Fidelity to Original Paper
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The current implementation should be an accurate implementation of all aspects of the paper except one - in Section 2.3 there is the requirement that the original publisher of a key/value republish it every 24 hours. This library does not do this (though you can easily do this manually).