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According to [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitcoin-python/0.3 the PyPI page], bitcoin-python is not actively maintained. The page suggests using [https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib python-bitcoinlib] instead, which offers far more features.
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The PyPI page for bitcoin-python leaves open the opportunity for anyone to take up the maintainer role for bitcoin-python, if they contact the developer.
  
 
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Revision as of 00:10, 7 May 2014

Friendly bitcoin API binding for Python.

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

This software is Open Source.

Documentation

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

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

PIP

The library can also be found in the Python package repository

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitcoin-python/0.3

This means that it can be installed using pip install bitcoin-python.

Project status

According to the PyPI page, bitcoin-python is not actively maintained. The page suggests using python-bitcoinlib instead, which offers far more features.

The PyPI page for bitcoin-python leaves open the opportunity for anyone to take up the maintainer role for bitcoin-python, if they contact the developer.

See Also

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