Re: [Bitcoin-development] python-bitcoinlib v0.1 release - a low-level Python2/3 interface to the Bitcoin protocol

[Drak <drak@zikula.org>]

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Would it make sense to pull that stuff in and add Peter with commit access
since your repo is top of the fork tree.

Drak


On 15 March 2014 16:47, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com> wrote:

> Sounds great.  I'm glad to see this with a more active maintainer.
> Maintaining -three- client libs was a bit much for me.
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
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> > I noticed that the ngccbase Colored Coin client(1) added a
> > python-bitcoinlib dependency, specifically my fork. In addition there is
> > also now a rudementary python-bitcoinlib package in archlinux.
> >
> > So with that in mind I'm releasing v0.1, perhaps somewhat arbitrarily:
> >
> >     https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib/tree/v0.1
> >
> > This Python2/3 library provides an easy interface to the bitcoin data
> > structures and protocol. The approach is low-level and "ground up", with
> > a focus on providing tools to manipulate the internals of how Bitcoin
> > works in a Pythonic way, without straying far from the Bitcoin Core
> > implementation.
> >
> > The current status of the library as of v0.1 is that the support for
> > data-structures related to transactions, scripting, addresses, and keys
> > are all quite usable and the API is probably not going to change that
> > much. Bitcoin Core RPC support is included and automatically converts
> > the JSON to/from Python objects when appropriate.  EvalScript(),
> > VerifyScript(), and SignatureHash() are all functional and pass all the
> > Bitcoin Core unittests, as well as a few that are still yet to be
> > merged.(2) You'll find some examples for signing pay2script-hash and
> > p2sh txouts in the examples/ directory; I personally used the
> > transaction signing functionality to make up a set of unittests related
> > to OP_CODESEPARATOR and FindAndDelete() recently. Finally my dust-b-gone
> > script(3) is another good example, specifically of the RPC
> > functionality.
> >
> > I personally haven't had any need for the p2p network related code for
> > some time, so I'm sure it's not in a good state and it lacks unittests;
> > Bloom filters for one are missing the merkle-block support to actually
> > make them useful. But the RPC support makes up for that for many uses.
> >
> > This release and others in the future are signed by my PGP key, as well
> > as every publicly pushed commit. You can verify the key via WoT, my
> > bitcointalk account, signing history in the Bitcoin Core repo, and
> > mailing list records among other sources.
> >
> > Disclaimer: This is alpha code in a language not known for type-safety.
> >             I wouldn't personally use python-bitcoinlib for anything
> >             other than experiments and neither should you.
> >
> > 1) https://github.com/bitcoinx/ngcccbase
> > 2) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3861
> > 3) https://github.com/petertodd/dust-b-gone
> >
> > - --
> > 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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