Skip to main content

Web3.py

Project description

# Web3.py

[![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/pipermerriam/web3.py](https://badges.gitter.im/pipermerriam/web3.py.svg)](https://gitter.im/pipermerriam/web3.py?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/pipermerriam/web3.py.png)](https://travis-ci.org/pipermerriam/web3.py)
[![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/web3.py/badge/?version=latest)](https://readthedocs.org/projects/web3.py/?badge=latest)
[![PyPi version](https://pypip.in/v/web3.py/badge.png)](https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/web3.py)
[![PyPi downloads](https://pypip.in/d/web3.py/badge.png)](https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/web3.py)


A python implementation of [web3.js](https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js)

## Goals

* Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 support
* Provide a feature-for-feature python implementation of Web3.js


## Installation

```sh
pip install web3
```


## API

This documentation is not yet complete, although the API should offer most functionality described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API), except for contract events and filters.


### Initialisation

Initialising the Ethereum node
```sh
# IPC
geth --unlock 0 console

# RPC, if required, with --rpcaddr "localhost" --rpcport <port>
geth --rpc --unlock 0 console
```

Connecting to the Ethereum node

```python
from web3 import Web3, RPCProvider, IPCProvider

# Initialising a Web3 instance with an RPCProvider:
web3rpc = Web3(RPCProvider(host="127.0.0.1", port="8545"))

# Initialising a Web3 instance with an IPCProvider:
web3ipc = Web3(IPCProvider(ipcpath=None, testnet=False))
# Both arguments can be omitted, the ipcpath should be found automatically
```


### Testing

For testing you can use the `TestRPCProvider`. This depends on
`eth-testrpc>=0.2.0` which must be installed independently (It is not included
as a hard dependency for this package.)


```python
from web3 import Web3, TestRPCProvider

# Initialising a Web3 instance with an RPCProvider:
web3rpc = Web3(TestRPCProvider())

# or specifying host and port.
web3rpc = Web3(TestRPCProvider(host="127.0.0.1", port="8545"))
```

The `TestRPCProvider` uses an EVM backed by the `ethereum.tester` module from
the `pyethereum` package. This can be quite useful for testing your code which
uses `web3.py`.


### Setting defaults
```python
web3.config.defaultAccount = <your (unlocked) account>
web3.config.defaultBlock = "latest"
# Can also be an integer or one of "latest", "pending", "earliest"
```

### Interacting with contracts


```python
>>> abi = json.joads("<abi-json-string>")
>>> ContractFactory = web3.eth.contracT(abi, code="0x...")
>>> ContractFactory.deploy()
... '0x461e829a731d96539ec1f147232f1d52b475225ed343e5853ff6bf3b237c6e79'
>>> contract = web3.eth.contract(abi, address="0x...")
>>> contract.transact().someMethod()
... '0xfbb0f76aa6a6bb8d178bc2b54de8fc7ca778d704af47d135c188ca7b5d25f2e4'
>>> contract.call().return13()
... 13
>>> contract.estimateGas().someMethod()
... 23212
```

You can listen for events using the `on` and `pastEvents` functions on a
contract.

```python
def transfer_callback(log_entry):
... # do something with the log.

# create a filter and register a callback.
filter = MyContract.on("Transfer", {})
filter.watch(transfer_callback)

filter.stop_watching()
```

The underlying asynchronous operations are managed by `gevent`.


### Timeouts, blocking and nonblocking requests

Web3.py does not currently support asynchronous calling patterns.


### `web3`

#### web3.db.*
Available as described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API).

#### web3.eth.*,
Available as described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API).

#### web3.net.*
Available as described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API).

#### web3.personal.*

Available as described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API).

#### web3.ssh.*

Available as described in the [Javascript API documentation](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API).

##### `web3.sha3`

```python
>>> web3.sha3(b'some text')
'46ba1b442d3606a3437800ee7ae5a0249756405e676739b46aa8f6e85b13fe2b'
>>> web3.sha3('0x80', encoding='hex')
'56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421'
```


#### `web3.eth`

##### `web3.eth.iban`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK")
<web3.eth.iban.Iban at 0x107301dd8>
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.fromAddress`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban.fromAddress('0x00c5496aee77c1ba1f0854206a26dda82a81d6d8').toString()
'XE7338O073KYGTWWZN0F2WZ0R8PX5ZPPZS'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.fromBban`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban.fromBban('ETHXREGGAVOFYORK').toString()
'XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.createIndirect`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban.createIndirect({
... 'institution': "XREG",
... 'identifier': "GAVOFYORK"
... }).toString()
'XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.isValid`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban.isValid("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK")
True

>>> web3.eth.iban.isValid("XE82ETHXREGGAVOFYORK")
False # false, cause checksum is incorrect

web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").isValid()
True
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.isDirect`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").isDirect()
False
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.isIndirect`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").isIndirect()
True
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.checksum`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").checksum()
'81'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.institution`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").institution()
'XREG'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.client`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban("XE81ETHXREGGAVOFYORK").client()
'GAVOFYORK'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.address`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban('XE7338O073KYGTWWZN0F2WZ0R8PX5ZPPZS').address()
'00c5496aee77c1ba1f0854206a26dda82a81d6d8'
```


###### `web3.eth.iban.toString`

```python
>>> web3.eth.iban('XE7338O073KYGTWWZN0F2WZ0R8PX5ZPPZS').toString()
'XE7338O073KYGTWWZN0F2WZ0R8PX5ZPPZS'
```

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This version

1.6.0

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

web3-1.6.0.tar.gz (26.9 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

web3-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (34.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file web3-1.6.0.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: web3-1.6.0.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 26.9 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No

File hashes

Hashes for web3-1.6.0.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 50795361caeb0642a3cd72ca1a1388a24d3f35599d8a791aa91292717f2db6ec
MD5 6afc38b6ae27ee3d1db4fa559d39bc5b
BLAKE2b-256 869cffd8fc10c990a2c6c77e86d4c9f3de60123b6dd7463742143a45b3296a19

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file web3-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for web3-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 a8019d71a02abbd5f7d0ca35a5ec265162981643efeb0abdd36692ae1c8e623d
MD5 f584bac5470b0dc444bd9e942d7e73b2
BLAKE2b-256 160a713aa87fa97421f4b69663bf430ca589ba9ed2bfa9b99ae3656bbd728e10

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page