Web3.py

A python implementation of web3.js

Goals

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

Installation

pip install web3

API

This documentation is not yet complete, although the API should offer most functionality described in the Javascript API documentation, except for contract events and filters.

Initialisation

Initialising the Ethereum node

# IPC
geth --unlock 0 console

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

Connecting to the Ethereum node

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.)

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

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

Interacting with contracts

>>> 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.

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.

web3.eth.*,

Available as described in the Javascript API documentation.

web3.net.*

Available as described in the Javascript API documentation.

web3.personal.*

Available as described in the Javascript API documentation.

web3.ssh.*

Available as described in the Javascript API documentation.

web3.sha3

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

web3.eth

web3.eth.iban

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

web3.eth.iban.fromAddress

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

web3.eth.iban.fromBban

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

web3.eth.iban.createIndirect

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

web3.eth.iban.isValid

>>> 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

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

web3.eth.iban.isIndirect

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

web3.eth.iban.checksum

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

web3.eth.iban.institution

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

web3.eth.iban.client

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

web3.eth.iban.address

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

web3.eth.iban.toString

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