python-bitcoinlib

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.

• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Example Code
  • Selecting the chain to use
  • Unit tests
• Advisories
  • Mutable vs. Immutable objects
  • Endianness Gotchas
• Consensus-critical API
  • Core
  • Bignum handling
  • ECC Public Keys
  • Scripts and Opcodes
  • Script evaluation/verification
  • Serialization
• Non-consensus-critical API
  • Chain selection
  • Base58 encoding
  • Bloom filters
  • Network communication
  • Network messages
  • Bitcoin Core RPC interface
  • Wallet-related code

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page