This is a little odd because Python is generally considered to be not the right language to use if you want to preserve memory correctness which you generally want to do when you are dealing with Bitcoin. In python-bitcoinlib there is a distinction between mutable data structures and immutable data structures. It has a bunch of items and fun things you can do. Also it can serialize data, it can construct certain network messages, it has a basic ability to interface with RPC. It can evaluate scripts and verify them as well. It is not really a tree, it is a list of operations. Also opcodes and scripts, it can represent scripts and parse abstract syntax tree formats.
It has a basic ability to represent keys and secret keys, things like that. So what does the library have? It has some of the basic data structures you’d expect such as representing transactions and blocks. Library structureīre - Basic core definitions, data structures and (context independent) validationī - Scripts and opcodesī - Script evaluation/verificationīitcoin.bloom - Bloom filters (incomplete)ī - Network communication (in flux)īssages - Network messages (in flux)īitcoin.rpc - Bitcoin Core RPC interface supportīitcoin.wallet - Wallet related code, currently Bitcoin address and private key support Peter has been more interested in Rust lately which I will mention in a moment. That is something that people are going to have to deal with. He is ostensibly the maintainer although he warns that it will go unmaintained very soon or already has. python-bitcoinlib itself is currently hosted under Peter Todd’s repository. Anyway that is a separate branch and separate evolution of the library. There are also a few other forks flying around, one called python-bitcoinrpc1 I believe made it into the Bitcoin Core repository for testing of Bitcoin Core. I believe originally this was started by Jeff Garzik as python-bitcoinrpc and then it evolved over the years passing from maintainer to maintainer or fork to fork.
#BITCOIN CORE RPC INTERFACE FULL#
I suppose you could in theory make a full node implementation from it but there are a lot of pieces missing so it is not a full node. Can I see a show of hands for who actually writes in Python in this audience? python-bitcoinlib is useful if you are doing rapid application prototyping or something. Before I get too deep into this, I’m quite curious. It is very useful for application development, for testing, things like that. Running Bitcoin scripts, evaluating Bitcoin scripts. Python-bitcoinlib is a library of Python classes, functions and other little helper methods for representing, parsing and serializing Bitcoin data. What is python-bitcoinlib and where to find it
Sorry for the ambiguity but it is not my fault. (Joke)īefore I get started, there is a presentation right after mine that is about libbitcoin. This is because I keep forgetting who I am so I have to write it down in all of my presentations. whoamiįirst I am going to start with an introduction slide. I will be talking about python-bitcoinlib. Transcript completed by: Bryan Bishop Edited by: Michael Folkson Intro Location: Bitcoin Edge Dev++, Keto University, Tokyo, Japan
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