Pituophis

Python 3 library for building Gopher clients and servers

Pituophis, at the moment, requires eight modules: os, re, sockets, asyncio, ssl, mimetypes, glob, and urllib; all of which are standard in most Python 3.7 installations. Pituophis can simply be loaded as a module like this:

import pituophis

Client

Pituophis can grab files and text from Gopher servers (both S/Gopher TLS and regular Gopher) through the Request.get() and get() functions.

Examples

Getting menus and files as plain text:

pituophis.get('gopher.floodgap.com').text()
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/').text()
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/gopher/proxy').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/gopher/proxy').text()
pituophis.get(host='khzae.net', port=105, path='/', tls=True).text() # TLS!
pituophis.get('gophers://khzae.net:105/1/').text() # gophers:// URLs!

Getting a menu, parsed:

menu = pituophis.get('gopher.floodgap.com').menu()
for selector in menu:
    print(selector.type)
    print(selector.text)
    print(selector.path)
    print(selector.host)
    print(selector.port)

Using search services:

pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/7/v2/vs?toast').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/v2/vs', query='toast').text()

Downloading a binary:

pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/9/gopher/clients/win/hgopher2_3.zip').binary
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/gopher/clients/win/hgopher2_3.zip').binary

Requests can also be created and worked with directly:

import pituophis
req = pituophis.Request()
req.host = 'gopher.floodgap.com'  # set to 127.0.0.1 by default
req.port = 70  # set to 70 as default, as per tradition
req.type = '7'  # set to 9 by default, purely for client usage
req.path = '/v2/vs'  # set to '/' by default
req.query = 'food'  # set to '' (nothing) by default
req.tls = False  # set to False by default
print('Getting', req.url())
rsp = req.get()
print(rsp.text())

They can also be created from a URL:

import pituophis
req = pituophis.parse_url('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/v2/vs?food')
print('Getting', req.url())
rsp = req.get()
print(rsp.text())

Server

Default Handler

Pituophis now lets you serve a directory. Serving gophermaps, directories, and files is supported out of the box.

Custom Handler

Pituophis also lets you write a custom handler for Gopher requests.