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