bitcoin-python is a set of Python libraries that allows easy access to the bitcoin peer-to-peer cryptocurrency client API.

Not actively maintained

bitcoin-python is not actively maintained. I don't have the mental bandwidth to maintain it and good alternatives have sprung up over time.

I'd suggest python-bitcoinlib (https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib ) as is the ultimate python bitcoin library. It offers not only RPC access but also a Python version of almost every bitcoin data structure.

The RPC is can be used through bitcoin.rpc.Proxy, see for example https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib/blob/master/examples/make-bootstrap-rpc.py.

If anyone wants to take up the maintainer role for bitcoin-python, let me know.

Documentation

Documentation can be found here, or in the source archive. It is built using Sphinx:

http://laanwj.github.com/bitcoin-python/doc/

Installation instructions

bitcoin-python uses setuptools for the install script. There are no dependencies apart from Python itself.

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

Pypi / Cheeseshop

It is possible to install the package through Pypi (cheeseshop), see http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=bitcoin-python

$ pip install bitcoin-python

TODO

These things still have to be added:

• SSL support (including certificate verification) for managing remote bitcoin daemons.