So for those of you who, like me, didn't know what Bencode is, here's the description from wikipedia[0]: Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding use

So for those of you who, like me, didn't know what Bencode is, here's the description from wikipedia[0]: Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data. It supports four different types of values: byte strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries (associative arrays). ... While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode