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# Web3.py

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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.eth.defaultAccount = <your (unlocked) account>
web3.eth.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'
```

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