Populus Documentation

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The Ethereum Foundation

Apr 11, 2024

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1 Getting Started 3

2 Table of Contents 5

3 Indices and tables 291

Python Module Index 293

Index 295

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Important: For ENS (Ethereum Name Service) users, web3.py v6.6.0 introduced ENS name normalization stan-
dard ENSIP-15. This update to ENS name validation and normalization won’t affect ~99% of names but may prevent
invalid names from being created and from interacting with the ENS contracts via web3.py. We feel strongly that this
change, though breaking, is in the best interest of our users as it ensures compatibility with the latest ENS standards.

web3.py is a Python library for interacting with Ethereum.

It’s commonly found in decentralized apps (dapps) to help with sending transactions, interacting with smart contracts,
reading block data, and a variety of other use cases.
The original API was derived from the Web3.js Javascript API, but has since evolved toward the needs and creature
comforts of Python developers.

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GETTING STARTED

Note: Brand new to Ethereum?

0. Don’t travel alone! Join the Ethereum Python Community Discord.
1. Read this blog post series for a gentle introduction to Ethereum blockchain concepts.
2. The Overview page will give you a quick idea of what else web3.py can do.
3. Try building a little something!

• Ready to code? → Quickstart

• Interested in a quick tour? → Overview
• Need help debugging? → StackExchange
• Found a bug? → Contribute
• Want to chat? → Discord
• Read the source? → Github
• Looking for inspiration? → Resources and Learning Material

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

2.1 Quickstart

• Installation
• Using Web3
– Test Provider
– Local Providers
– Remote Providers
• Getting Blockchain Info

Note: All code starting with a $ is meant to run on your terminal. All code starting with a >>> is meant to run in a
python interpreter, like ipython.

2.1.1 Installation

web3.py can be installed (preferably in a virtualenv) using pip as follows:

$ pip install web3

Note: If you run into problems during installation, you might have a broken environment. See the troubleshooting
guide to setting up a clean environment.

2.1.2 Using Web3

This library depends on a connection to an Ethereum node. We call these connections Providers and there are several
ways to configure them. The full details can be found in the Providers documentation. This Quickstart guide will
highlight a couple of the most common use cases.

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Test Provider

If you’re just learning the ropes or doing some quick prototyping, you can use a test provider, eth-tester. This provider
includes some accounts prepopulated with test ether and instantly includes each transaction into a block. web3.py
makes this test provider available via EthereumTesterProvider.

Note: The EthereumTesterProvider requires additional dependencies. Install them via pip install
"web3[tester]", then import and instantiate the provider as seen below.

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> w3.is_connected()
True

Local Providers

The hardware requirements are steep, but the safest way to interact with Ethereum is to run an Ethereum client on
your own hardware. For locally run nodes, an IPC connection is the most secure option, but HTTP and websocket
configurations are also available. By default, the popular Geth client exposes port 8545 to serve HTTP requests and
8546 for websocket requests. Connecting to this local node can be done as follows:

>>> from web3 import Web3, AsyncWeb3

# IPCProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.IPCProvider('./path/to/geth.ipc'))

# HTTPProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('http://127.0.0.1:8545'))

# WebsocketProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.WebsocketProvider('wss://127.0.0.1:8546'))

>>> w3.is_connected()
True

# AsyncHTTPProvider:
>>> w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncWeb3.AsyncHTTPProvider('http://127.0.0.1:8545'))

>>> await w3.is_connected()

True

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Remote Providers

The quickest way to interact with the Ethereum blockchain is to use a remote node provider. You can connect to a
remote node by specifying the endpoint, just like the previous local node example:

>>> from web3 import Web3, AsyncWeb3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('https://<your-provider-url>'))

>>> w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncWeb3.AsyncHTTPProvider('https://<your-provider-url>'))

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.WebsocketProvider('wss://<your-provider-url>'))

This endpoint is provided by the remote node service, typically after you create an account.

2.1.3 Getting Blockchain Info

It’s time to start using web3.py! Once properly configured, the w3 instance will allow you to interact with the Ethereum
blockchain. Try getting all the information about the latest block:

>>> w3.eth.get_block('latest')
{'difficulty': 1,
'gasLimit': 6283185,
'gasUsed': 0,
'hash': HexBytes('0x53b983fe73e16f6ed8178f6c0e0b91f23dc9dad4cb30d0831f178291ffeb8750'),
'logsBloom': HexBytes(
˓→'0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

˓→'),

'miner': '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000',
'mixHash': HexBytes('0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
˓→'),

'nonce': HexBytes('0x0000000000000000'),
'number': 0,
'parentHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'),

'proofOfAuthorityData': HexBytes(
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000dddc391ab2bf6701c74d0c8698c2e13355b

˓→'),

'receiptsRoot': HexBytes(
˓→'0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421'),

'sha3Uncles': HexBytes(
˓→'0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347'),

'size': 622,
'stateRoot': HexBytes(
˓→'0x1f5e460eb84dc0606ab74189dbcfe617300549f8f4778c3c9081c119b5b5d1c1'),

'timestamp': 0,
'totalDifficulty': 1,
'transactions': [],
'transactionsRoot': HexBytes(
˓→'0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421'),

'uncles': []}

web3.py can help you read block data, sign and send transactions, deploy and interact with contracts, and a number of
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A few suggestions from here:

• The Overview page provides a summary of web3.py’s features.
• The w3.eth API contains the most frequently used methods.
• A guide to Contracts includes deployment and usage examples.
• The nuances of Sending Transactions are explained in another guide.
• For other inspiration, see the Examples.

Note: It is recommended that your development environment have the PYTHONWARNINGS=default environment
variable set. Some deprecation warnings will not show up without this variable being set.

2.2 Overview

The purpose of this page is to give you a sense of everything web3.py can do and to serve as a quick reference guide.
You’ll find a summary of each feature with links to learn more. You may also be interested in the Examples page, which
demonstrates some of these features in greater detail.

2.2.1 Configuration

After installing web3.py (via pip install web3), you’ll need to configure a provider endpoint and any middleware
you want to use beyond the defaults.

Providers

Providers are how web3.py connects to a blockchain. The library comes with the following built-in providers:
• IPCProvider for connecting to ipc socket based JSON-RPC servers.
• HTTPProvider for connecting to http and https based JSON-RPC servers.
• WebsocketProvider for connecting to ws and wss websocket based JSON-RPC servers.
• AsyncHTTPProvider for connecting to http and https based JSON-RPC servers.

Examples

>>> from web3 import Web3, AsyncWeb3

# IPCProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.IPCProvider('./path/to/geth.ipc'))

# HTTPProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('http://127.0.0.1:8545'))

# WebsocketProvider:
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.WebsocketProvider('ws://127.0.0.1:8546'))

>>> w3.is_connected()
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True

# AsyncHTTPProvider:
>>> w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncWeb3.AsyncHTTPProvider('http://127.0.0.1:8545'))

>>> await w3.is_connected()

True

For more context, see the Providers documentation.

Middleware

Your web3.py instance may be further configured via Middleware.

web3.py middleware is described using an onion metaphor, where each layer of middleware may affect both the incom-
ing request and outgoing response from your provider. The documentation includes a visualization of this idea.
Several middleware are included by default. You may add to (add, inject, replace) or disable (remove, clear)
any of these middleware.

2.2.2 Accounts and Private Keys

Private keys are required to approve any transaction made on your behalf. The manner in which your key is secured
will determine how you create and send transactions in web3.py.
A local node, like Geth, may manage your keys for you. You can reference those keys using the web3.eth.accounts
property.
A hosted node, like Infura, will have no knowledge of your keys. In this case, you’ll need to have your private key
available locally for signing transactions.
Full documentation on the distinction between keys can be found here. The separate guide to Sending Transactions
may also help clarify how to manage keys.

2.2.3 Base API

The Web3 class includes a number of convenient utility functions:

Encoding and Decoding Helpers

• Web3.is_encodable()
• Web3.to_bytes()
• Web3.to_hex()
• Web3.to_int()
• Web3.to_json()
• Web3.to_text()

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Address Helpers

• Web3.is_address()
• Web3.is_checksum_address()
• Web3.to_checksum_address()

Currency Conversions

• Web3.from_wei()
• Web3.to_wei()

Cryptographic Hashing

• Web3.keccak()
• Web3.solidity_keccak()

2.2.4 web3.eth API

The most commonly used APIs for interacting with Ethereum can be found under the web3.eth namespace. As a
reminder, the Examples page will demonstrate how to use several of these methods.

Fetching Data

Viewing account balances (get_balance), transactions (get_transaction), and block data (get_block) are some
of the most common starting points in web3.py.

API

• web3.eth.get_balance()
• web3.eth.get_block()
• web3.eth.get_block_transaction_count()
• web3.eth.get_code()
• web3.eth.get_proof()
• web3.eth.get_storage_at()
• web3.eth.get_transaction()
• web3.eth.get_transaction_by_block()
• web3.eth.get_transaction_count()
• web3.eth.get_uncle_by_block()
• web3.eth.get_uncle_count()

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Sending Transactions

The most common use cases will be satisfied with send_transaction or the combination of sign_transaction
and send_raw_transaction. For more context, see the full guide to Sending Transactions.

Note: If interacting with a smart contract, a dedicated API exists. See the next section, Contracts.

API

• web3.eth.send_transaction()
• web3.eth.sign_transaction()
• web3.eth.send_raw_transaction()
• web3.eth.replace_transaction()
• web3.eth.modify_transaction()
• web3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt()
• web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt()
• web3.eth.sign()
• web3.eth.sign_typed_data()
• web3.eth.estimate_gas()
• web3.eth.generate_gas_price()
• web3.eth.set_gas_price_strategy()

Contracts

web3.py can help you deploy, read from, or execute functions on a deployed contract.
Deployment requires that the contract already be compiled, with its bytecode and ABI available. This compilation step
can be done within Remix or one of the many contract development frameworks, such as Ape.
Once the contract object is instantiated, calling transact on the constructor method will deploy an instance of the
contract:

>>> ExampleContract = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)

>>> tx_hash = ExampleContract.constructor().transact()
>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> tx_receipt.contractAddress
'0x8a22225eD7eD460D7ee3842bce2402B9deaD23D3'

Once a deployed contract is loaded into a Contract object, the functions of that contract are available on the functions
namespace:

>>> deployed_contract = w3.eth.contract(address=tx_receipt.contractAddress, abi=abi)

>>> deployed_contract.functions.myFunction(42).transact()

If you want to read data from a contract (or see the result of transaction locally, without executing it on the network),
you can use the ContractFunction.call method, or the more concise ContractCaller syntax:

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# Using ContractFunction.call
>>> deployed_contract.functions.getMyValue().call()
42

# Using ContractCaller
>>> deployed_contract.caller().getMyValue()
42

For more, see the full Contracts documentation.

API

• web3.eth.contract()
• Contract.address
• Contract.abi
• Contract.bytecode
• Contract.bytecode_runtime
• Contract.functions
• Contract.events
• Contract.fallback
• Contract.constructor()
• Contract.encode_abi()
• web3.contract.ContractFunction
• web3.contract.ContractEvents

Logs and Filters

If you want to react to new blocks being mined or specific events being emitted by a contract, you can leverage web3.py
filters.

# Use case: filter for new blocks

>>> new_filter = web3.eth.filter('latest')

# Use case: filter for contract event "MyEvent"

>>> new_filter = deployed_contract.events.MyEvent.create_filter(fromBlock='latest')

# retrieve filter results:

>>> new_filter.get_all_entries()
>>> new_filter.get_new_entries()

More complex patterns for creating filters and polling for logs can be found in the Monitoring Events documentation.

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API

• web3.eth.filter()
• web3.eth.get_filter_changes()
• web3.eth.get_filter_logs()
• web3.eth.uninstall_filter()
• web3.eth.get_logs()
• Contract.events.your_event_name.create_filter()
• Contract.events.your_event_name.build_filter()
• Filter.get_new_entries()
• Filter.get_all_entries()
• Filter.format_entry()
• Filter.is_valid_entry()

2.2.5 Net API

Some basic network properties are available on the web3.net object:

• web3.net.listening
• web3.net.peer_count
• web3.net.version

2.2.6 ethPM

ethPM allows you to package up your contracts for reuse or use contracts from another trusted registry. See the full
details here.

2.2.7 ENS

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) provides the infrastructure for human-readable addresses. If an address is registered
with the ENS registry, the domain name can be used in place of the address itself. For example, the registered domain
name ethereum.eth will resolve to the address 0xde0B295669a9FD93d5F28D9Ec85E40f4cb697BAe. web3.py has
support for ENS, documented here.

2.3 Release Notes

v6 Breaking Changes Summary

See the v6 Migration Guide

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2.3.1 web3.py v6.17.0 (2024-04-11)

Improved Documentation

• Add feedback survey banner to docs (#3325)

• Fix eth_createAccessList docs to reflect the correct behavior. (#3329)

Features

• Add request formatter for maxFeePerBlobGas when sending blob transactions. Add formatters for
blobGasPrice and blobGasUsed for eth_getTransactionReceipt. (#3323)
• Add formatters to ensure that the result of a eth_createAccessList response can be plugged directly into an
accessList in a transaction. (#3329)
• Add Cancun support to EthereumTesterProvider; update Cancun-related fields in some internal types.
(#3338)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Use pre-commit for linting the v6 branch (#3296)

• Add an upperpin at eth-typing<4.2.0 due to removal of EthPM types in that lib (#3324)

2.3.2 web3.py v6.16.0 (2024-03-28)

Bugfixes

• Catch all types of eth-abi DecodingError in EthereumTesterProvider->_make_request() (#3267)

• Fix/update methods and decorators in web3/_utils/abi.py to address issues raised by mypy (#3273)
• Fix process_log() when parsing logs for events with indexed and non-indexed inputs. get_event_data()
now compares log topics and event ABIs as hex values. (#3288)
• Fix process_log for HexStr inputs. Explicit type coercion of entry topics and data values. (#3292)
• Fix typing for json data argument to eth_signTypedData. (#3311)

Deprecations

• Deprecate Geth miner namespace (#2857)

• Deprecated Contract.encodeABI() in favor of Contract.encode_abi(). (#3280)

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Features

• Implement state_override parameter for eth_estimateGas method. (#3164)

• Add formatters for new Cancun network upgrade block header fields: blobGasUsed, excessBlobGas, and
parentBeaconBlockRoot. (#3224)
• Allow for configuring the request_information_cache_size for PersistentConnectionProvider
classes. Issue a warning when the cache is full and unexpected behavior may occur. (#3226)
• Add user_message kwarg for human readable Web3Exception messages. (#3282)
• Add formatters for type 3 transaction fields maxFeePerBlobGas and blobVersionedHashes. (#3315)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Fix internal typing for functions used by process_log. (#3301)

Performance Improvements

• Utilize async functionality when popping responses from request manager cache for persistent connection
providers. (#3305)

2.3.3 web3.py v6.15.1 (2024-02-05)

Bugfixes

• Handle new geth errors related to waiting for a transaction receipt while transactions are still being indexed.
(#3217)

Improved Documentation

• Remove annual user survey prompt from docs (#3218)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Create test fixture for latest geth version. Run tests with geth in --dev mode. (#3191)
• Formatting updates for black==24.1.0. (#3207)
• Add eth-tester version that supports eth_feeHistory (#3222)

2.3.4 web3.py v6.15.0 (2024-01-25)

Breaking Changes (to Beta APIs)

• Use a message listener background task for WebsocketProviderV2 rather than relying on ws.recv() blocking.
Some breaking changes to API, notably listen_to_websocket -> process_subscriptions. (#3206)

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Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Compile contracts with and test against new Solidity version v0.8.24. (#3205)

2.3.5 web3.py v6.14.0 (2024-01-10)

Bugfixes

• Change fee_history default behavior. If reward_percentiles arg not included, pass it to the provider as an
empty list instead of None. (#3185)
• Use importlib.metadata for version info if python>=3.8 (#3187)

Improved Documentation

• Remove docs reference for removed protocol_version RPC method (#3183)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Re-define how async vs sync core test suites are ran. (#3180)
• Add basic import and version tests for the web3 module (#3187)

2.3.6 web3.py v6.13.0 (2023-12-20)

Features

• Implement async eth_createAccessList RPC method to create an EIP-2930 access list. (#3167)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Add flaky async Geth integration tests to CI (#3170)

• Fix wrong test reference for EthereumTesterProvider integration test suite. (#3171)
• Small fix for integration tests for tox to recognize independent patterns for each test run. (#3173)

2.3.7 web3.py v6.12.0 (2023-12-11)

Improved Documentation

• Make downloadable versions of docs available in pdf, htmlzip, and epub formats (#3153)
• Add 2023 user survey fine art banner in the docs (#3159)
• Polish the community resources docs page (#3162)

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Features

• Implement createAccessList RPC endpoint to create an EIP-2930 access list. (#2381)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Run flaky eth-tester tests on CI (#3157)

• Pin pytest-asyncio dependency to <0.23 (#3160)

2.3.8 web3.py v6.11.4 (2023-11-27)

Bugfixes

• Fix collision of w3 variable when initializing contract with function of the same name (#3147)

Miscellaneous Changes

• #3148

2.3.9 web3.py v6.11.3 (2023-11-08)

Bugfixes

• When coming back through the middleware onion after a request is made, we have the response id. Use it to
match to the cached request information and process the response accordingly. (#3140)

Improved Documentation

• Adds Discord bot template repo to Resources page (#3143)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Additional contract abi documentation to make it a clear requirement for contract instances. (#2539)
• Fix type annotations for web3 constants. (#3138)
• Add upper pin to deprecated dependency lru-dict whose new minor version release introduced a typing issue
with CI lint builds. (#3144)
• Recompile test contracts with new Solidity version v0.8.23 to ensure compatibility. (#3146)

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2.3.10 web3.py v6.11.2 (2023-10-30)

Improved Documentation

• Fix formatting in documentation for creating an account. (#3128)

• Fix broken links for Apeworx and Sepolia faucet (#3130)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Speed up the core test suite by splitting up sync and async tests. This reduces the CI build times to ~8min from
~12min. (#3111)
• Re-compile test contracts with Solidity v0.8.22 to ensure compatibility with this latest Solidity version. (#3134)
• Improvements on yielding to the event loop while searching in response caches and calling recv() on the web-
socket connection for WebsocketProviderV2. (#3135)

2.3.11 web3.py v6.11.1 (2023-10-18)

Improved Documentation

• Update WebsocketProviderV2 documentation. Document a general overview of the RequestProcessor class

and its internal caches. (#3125)

Features

• Properly define an __await__() method on the _PersistentConnectionWeb3 class so a persistent connection

may be initialized using the await pattern. Integration tests added for initializing the persistent connection using
the await pattern. (#3125)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Updates and refactoring for the WebsocketProviderV2 class and its internal supporting classes and logic. Sep-
aration of one-to-one and one-to-many request responses. Storing of one-to-many responses in a deque and
one-to-one responses in a SimpleCache class. Provide an async lock around the websocket recv(). (#3125)
• Add upper pin to hexbytes dependency to due incoming breaking change (#3127)

Miscellaneous Changes

• #3114, #3129

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2.3.12 web3.py v6.11.0 (2023-10-11)

Breaking Changes (to Beta APIs)

• Refactor the async iterator pattern for message streams from the websocket connection for
WebsocketProviderV2 to a proper async iterator. This allows for a more natural usage of the iterator
pattern and mimics the behavior of the underlying websockets library. (#3116)

Bugfixes

• Use hashes to compare equality of two AttributeDict classes (#3104)

• Fix issues with formatting middleware, such as async_geth_poa_middleware and subscription responses for
WebsocketProviderV2. (#3116)

Improved Documentation

• Change docker-compose to docker compose in the Contributing docs examples. (#3107)

• Updates to the WebsocketProviderV2 documentation async iterator example for iterating over a persistent
stream of messages from the websocket connection via async for. (#3116)
• Update outdated node and private key management verbiage. (#3117)

Features

• Allow passing in a float for a request_timeout for requests for the Beacon class. Update some Beacon API
endpoints (sync and async). (#3106)
• Add allow_list kwarg for exception_retry_middleware to allow for a custom list of RPC endpoints. Add
a sleep between retries and a customizable backoff_factor to control the sleep time between retry attempts.
(#3120)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Refactor logic for the input_munger() method on the Method class. (#2987)
• Pin mypy to v1.4.1, the last to support py37 (#3122)

2.3.13 web3.py v6.10.0 (2023-09-21)

Breaking Changes (to Beta APIs)

• Breaking change to the API for interacting with a persistent websocket connection via AsyncWeb3 and
WebsocketProviderV2. This change internalizes the provider.ws property and opts for a w3.ws API
achieved via a new WebsocketConnection class. With these changes, eth_subscription messages now
return the subscription id as the subscription param and the formatted message as the result param. (#3096)

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Bugfixes

• Return w3.eth.gas_price when calculating time based gas price strategy for an empty chain. (#1149)
• Update LogReceipt and TxReceipt declarations. Remove LogReceipt’s payload and topic attributes. Refactor
LogEntry to LogReceipt. (#3043)
• Fixes AsyncEth.max_priority_fee_per_gas. It wasn’t falling back to eth_feeHistory since the
MethodUnavailable error was introduced. (#3084)

Improved Documentation

• Update WebsocketProviderV2 documentation to reflect the new public websocket API via the
WebsocketConnection class. (#3096)

Features

• Improved error messaging for exceptions from malformed JSON-RPC responses. (#3053)
• Enable filtering by non-indexed arguments for contract event get_logs(). (#3078)
• Add eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas to exception_retry_middleware whitelist (#3090)
• Sync responses for WebsocketProviderV2 open connections with requests via matching RPC id values.
(#3096)
• Properly JSON encode AttributeDict, bytes, and HexBytes when sending a JSON-RPC request by utilizing
the in-house Web3JsonEncoder class. (#3101)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Fix an issue with an IPC test present only on MacOSX. (#929)

• Ignore flake8 rule F401 (unused import) in all __init__.py files (#3097)

2.3.14 web3.py v6.9.0 (2023-08-23)

Bugfixes

• Fix the type for input in TxData from HexStr -> HexBytes. (#3074)
• Fix an issue with WebsocketProviderV2 when responses to a request aren’t found in the cache (None values).
(#3075)
• Re-expose some websockets constants found in web3.providers.websocket.websocket via web3.
providers.websocket. (#3076)
• Return NotImplemented constant, rather than raising NotImplementedError for NamedElementOnion.
__add__(), based on Python standards. (#3080)
• Only release async_lock if it’s locked to begin with. (#3083)

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Improved Documentation

• Add MEV blocking tutorial to Resources docs page (#3072)

• Fix documentation around current state of get_logs() usage and arguments. (#3073)
• Add an Ape hackathon kit to Resources documenation page (#3082)

2.3.15 web3.py v6.8.0 (2023-08-02)

Bugfixes

• Fix the type for the optional param asking for “full transactions” when subscribing to
newPendingTransactions via eth_subscribe to bool. (#3067)

Improved Documentation

• Change docs to reflect AsyncHTTPProvider does accept ENS names now (#3070)

Features

• Return structured JSON-RPC errors for missing or unimplemented eth-tester methods. (#3061)
• ENS name-to-address support for eth_subscribe. (#3066)
• Asynchronous iterator support for AsyncWeb3 with WebsocketProviderV2 using async for syntax. (#3067)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Minor fixes to type hinting in the core tests setup fixtures. (#3069)

2.3.16 web3.py v6.7.0 (2023-07-26)

Bugfixes

• Test wheel build in separate directory and virtualenv (#3046)

• Handle case where data gets returned as None in a JSON-RPC error response (#3054)
• Fixed default windows IPC provider path to work with python 3.11 (#3058)
• Fix return type for rpc_gas_price_strategy to int but also only convert the strategy_based_gas_price
to hex if it is an int in the gas_price_strategy_middleware. (#3065)

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Improved Documentation

• Add note to Release Notes about v5 end-of-life and v6.6.0 yank (#3045)
• Add documentation for WebsocketProviderV2 (beta). (#3048)

Features

• Add ENSIP-9 (Multichain Address Resolution) support for address() and setup_address() for ENS and
AsyncENS classes. (#3030)
• Support for eth_subscribe and eth_unsubscribe methods has been added with the introduction of a new
websocket provider, WebsocketProviderV2. (#3048)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Added recursive typing to ABIFunctionComponents type (#3063)

• Upgrade eth-tester requirement to v0.9.0-b.1 (#3064)

2.3.17 web3.py v6.6.1 (2023-07-12)

Bugfixes

• Add ens/specs to MANIFEST.in (#3039)

2.3.18 web3.py v6.6.0 (2023-07-12)

Note: This release was missing the required ``ens/specs`` directory, so it was yanked from Pypi in favor of v6.6.1

Breaking Changes

• ENS name normalization now uses ENSIP-15 by default. This is technically a breaking change introduced by
ENS but, according to ENSIP-15, 99% of existing names should be unaffected. (#3024)

Bugfixes

• Handle None in the formatting middleware (#2546)

• Fix for a possible bug in construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware where the signed transaction was sent
as bytes and expected to be converted to hex by formatting later on. It is now explicitly sent as the hex string
hash within the middleware. (#2936)
• Fixes max_priority_fee_per_gas. It wasn’t falling back to eth_feeHistory since the
MethodUnavailable error was introduced. (#3002)
• Properly initialize logger in AsyncHTTPProvider. (#3026)
• Fix AsyncWeb3.solidity_keccak to match Web3.solidity_keccak. (#3034)

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Improved Documentation

• Replaced transaction examples with unused account addresses. (#2011)

• Removed obsolete docs for camelCase miner methods and deploy (#2039)
• Update documentation relating to ENS only being available on mainnet. ENS is available on all networks where
the ENS contracts are deployed. (#3012)
• Add first steps section and tidy up learning resources (#3013)
• Replace references to jasoncarver.eth with ens.eth. (#3020)
• Adds “Hackathon Helpers” section to Resources page (#3035)

Features

• Update ENS Resolver ABI (#1839)

• async_http_retry_request_middleware, an async http request retry middleware for
AsyncHTTPProvider. (#3009)
• Add eth_getStorageAt() support for EthereumTesterProvider. (#3011)
• Add async support for ENS name-to-address resolution via async_name_to_address_middleware. (#3012)
• Add async support for the sign-and-send raw transaction middleware via
construct_async_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(). (#3025)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Remove some warnings from test output (#2991)

• Introduced the logic for ENSIP-15 ENS name normalization. Originally this was done via a flag in this PR but
changed to the default behavior in #3024 before release. (#3000)

Miscellaneous Changes

• #2997, #3011, #3023, #3037

Removals

• Removed references to deprecated middlewares with new tests to check default middlewares (#2972)

2.3.19 web3.py v6.5.0 (2023-06-15)

Bugfixes

• Properly create a fresh cache for each instance of simple_cache_middleware if no cache is provided. Fixes a
bug when using this middleware with multiple instances of Web3. (#2979)
• Fix potential race condition when writing cache entries in simple_cache_middleware (#2981)
• Catch UnicodeDecodeError for contract revert messages that cannot be decoded and issue a warning instead,
raising a ContractLogicError with the raw data from the response. (#2989)

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Improved Documentation

• Introduces resources page to documentation (#2957)

• Completed docstrings for ContractFunction and AsyncContractFunction classes (#2960)
• Added ‘unsupported by any current clients’ note to the Eth.sign_typed_data docs (#2961)
• Removed list of AsyncHTTPProvider-supported methods, it supports them all now (#2962)
• Modernize the filtering guide, emphasizing get_logs (#2968)
• Removed references to defunct providers in IPCProvider docs (#2971)
• Update Matomo analytics script to move to cloud services (#2978)

Features

• Add the sign_typed_data method to the AsyncEth class (#2920)

• Add support for Solidity Panic errors, available since Solidity 0.8.0. Raises ContractPanicError with ap-
propriate messaging based on the known panic error codes. (#2986)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• lint-roll - dropped isort --recursive flag, not needed as of their v5, added black (#2930)
• Moved ethpm deprecation warning to only show when the module is explicitly enabled (#2983)
• Update make release to check remote upstream is pointing to ethereum/web3.py. (#2988)
• Removed pluggy from dev requirements (#2992)

Miscellaneous Changes

• #2960, #2965

2.3.20 web3.py v6.4.0 (2023-05-15)

Bugfixes

• fix AttributeDicts unhashable if they contain lists recursively tupleizing them (#2908)

Deprecations

• add deprecation notice for the ethPM module (#2953)

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Improved Documentation

• remove reference to the ability to specify a list of providers - you can’t anymore (#2949)
• add deprecation notice for the ethPM module (#2953)

Features

• Update eth-tester to pull in Shanghai changes and make additional changes to fully support Shanghai with
eth-tester. (#2958)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• bump sphinx and readthedocs py versions (#2945)

• re-compile test contracts with Solidity v0.8.20 (#2951)
• Set towncrier settings in pyproject.toml to match the python project template and change newfragment type “doc”
to “docs” (#2959)

2.3.21 v6.3.0 (2023-05-03)

Features

• Add support for custom revert errors (#2795)

• Add the modify_transaction method to the AsyncEth class (#2825)
• add show_traceback flag to is_connected to allow user to see connection error reason (#2912)
• Add a data attribute on the ContractLogicError class that returns raw data returned by the node. (#2922)
• Add support via result formatters for reward type trace actions on tracing calls. (#2929)

Bugfixes

• Typing was being ignored for the get_ipc_path and get_dev_ipc_path functions because of a missing None
return. Those two methods now explicitly return None and have an Optional in their type definition. (#2917)
• fix AsyncEventFilterBuilder looking for Web3 instead of AsyncWeb3 (#2931)
• Add check for null withdrawal field on get_block response (#2941)

Improved Documentation

• Add a decision tree guide for sending transactions (#2919)

• Update references to master branch (#2933)
• Cleanup Quickstart guide and next steps (#2935)
• Cleanup Overview page links and context (#2938)

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Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Added build to towncrier commands in Makefile (#2915)

• Update win wheel CI builds to use python -m tox -r instead of specifying the tox executable directly.
(#2923)
• update pip and tox install on CI containers (#2927)

2.3.22 v6.2.0 (2023-04-12)

Features

• Adds async version of eth_getUncleCount methods (#2822)

• Add the sign_transaction method to the AsyncEth class (#2827)
• Add the replace_transaction method to the AsyncEth class (#2847)

Bugfixes

• Use TraceFilterParams instead of FilterParams for trace_filter typing (#2913)

Improved Documentation

• Add welcome banner for Ethereum newcomers (#2905)

• Added breaking changes from pr2448 to v6 migration guide (#2907)

2.3.23 v6.1.0 (2023-04-05)

Features

• Add tracing functionality back in via the tracing module, add formatters for human-readable input and output,
and attach this module to Web3 on init / make it a default module. (#2851)
• Add result formatters for withdrawals_root and withdrawals as part of Shanghai hard fork support.
(#2868)
• add eth_chainId to exception_retry_middleware whitelist (#2892)

Bugfixes

• Mark test_async_eth_sign with @pytest.mark.asyncio (#2858)

• fix readthedocs broken version selector (#2883)

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Improved Documentation

• remove camelCased method deprecation notices from web3.eth docs (#2882)

• Add doc blurb about multiple HTTPProviders with the same URL (#2889)
• fix styling and external link formatting (#2897)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Bump pytest from 6.2.5 to 7+ because of CI DeprecationWarning (#2863)

• Require eth-abi v4 stable (#2886)
• remove unused docs dependencies and bump version of remaining (#2890)
• Update go-ethereum integration test fixture to use the latest version of geth - v1.11.5. (#2896)
• Update geth_steps in CircleCI builds to pip install the proper version of py-geth. (#2898)
• Update CircleCI windows orb path since it now uses python 3.11. (#2899)
• Bump go version used in CI jobs that install and run go-ethereum and parameterize the version in circleci config
file for ease of configuration. (#2900)

Miscellaneous changes

• #2887

2.3.24 v6.0.0 (2023-03-14)

Bugfixes

• fix dict_to_namedtuple unable to handle empty dict as input (#2867)

2.3.25 v6.0.0-beta.11 (2023-02-24)

Features

• Add the sign method to the AsyncEth class (#2833)

Bugfixes

• More accurately define the eth_call return type as HexBytes since the response is converted to HexBytes in
the pythonic formatters and there are differences between HexBytes and bytes types. (#2842)
• Set default block_identifier in ContractFunction.call() to None (#2846)

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Improved Documentation

• Remove unused module lines to instantiate the AsyncHTTPProvider (#2789)

• Typos fix in docs (#2817)
• Add/cleanup docs for the AsyncHTTPProvider in light of the new AsyncWeb3 class (#2821)
• Remove user survey banner following close of survey (#2831)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Do not invoke setup.py directly; use python -m build where appropriate. (#2714)
• clean up ignored unused imports (#2838)
• Recompile test contracts with the new Solidity version 0.8.19. (#2840)
• Update py-geth version and re-generate integration test fixture with geth v1.11.2. (#2841)

Breaking changes

• Use AsyncWeb3 class and preserve typing for the async api calls. (#2819)
• Fix typing for CallOverrideParams and add proper request formatters for call state overrides. (#2843)
• Remove python warning and doc notes related to unstable async providers. (#2845)

2.3.26 v6.0.0-beta.10 (2023-02-15)

Features

• add decode_tuples option to contract instantiation (#2799)

Bugfixes

• Fix ethpm import issues after making ipfshttpclient optional. (#2775)

• Fix for recently-broken eth-tester exception message parsing for some exception cases. (#2783)

Improved Documentation

• Added a v6 Migraion Guide (#2778)

• Rebrand the library to lowercase “web3.py” (#2804)
• remove references to Rinkeby or replace with Goerli (#2815)

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Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Organize the eth module into separate files for better readability. (#2753)
• Rename the newly-split eth module files to match convention. (#2772)
• Re-compile all test contracts with latest Solidity version. Refactor test fixtures. Adds a script that compiles all
test contracts to the same directory with selected Solidity version. (#2797)
• Updates to isort and black required some formatting changes and isort config refactoring. (#2802)
• Compile test contracts using newly-released Solidity version 0.8.18. (#2803)

Breaking changes

• All exceptions inherit from a custom class. EthPM exceptions inherit from EthPMException, ENS exceptions
inherit from ENSException, and all other web3.py exceptions inherit from Web3Exception (#1478)
• Reorganized contract to contract.py, async_contract.py, base_contract.py and utils.py. In this change there was
a small breaking change where the constructor of BaseContractCaller contract_function_class was defaulting to
a ContractFunction now there is no default. This was done to separate the base class from the implementation.
(#2567)
• When calling a contract, use w3.eth.default_block if no block_identifier is specified instead of latest.
(#2777)
• Strict bytes type checking is now default for web3.py. This change also adds a boolean flag on the Web3 class
for turning this feature on and off, as well as a flag on the ENS class for control over a standalone ENS instance.
(#2788)
• When a method is not supported by a node provider, raise a MethodUnavailable error instead of the generic
ValueError. (#2796)
• dict to AttributeDict conversion is no longer a default result formatter. This conversion is now done via a
default middleware that may be removed. (#2805)
• Removed deprecated manager.request_async and associated methods. (#2810)
• removed Rinkeby from list of allowed chains in EthPM (#2815)

2.3.27 v6.0.0-beta.9 (2023-01-03)

Features

• Add async w3.eth.get_block_transaction_count (#2687)

• Support Python 3.11 (#2699)
• Load the AsyncHTTPProvider with default async middleware and default async modules, just as the
HTTPProvider. (#2736)
• Add support for Nethermind/Gnosis revert reason formatting (#2739)
• Added async functionality to filter (#2744)
• Get contract address from CREATE and CREATE2 opcodes (#2762)

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Bugfixes

• Fixing abi encoding for multidimensional arrays. (#2764)

Performance improvements

• Some minor performance improvements to the SimpleCache class and simple cache middlewares (sync and
async). (#2719)
• Remove unnecessary await for generate_gas_price() method as it does not need to be awaited. Move this
method to BaseEth to be used directly by both Eth and AsyncEth modules. (#2735)

Improved Documentation

• Add user survey to docs banner (#2720)

• Document improvements for private key info and account funding. (#2722)
• Include eth-tester install note in quickstart (#2755)

Deprecations and Removals

• Removal of Infura auto provider support. (#2706)

• Removal of version module. (#2729)
• Remove already-deprecated start_rpc and stop_rpc from the w3.geth.admin module. (#2731)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Use regex pattern for black command for tox / make lint linting commands. (#2727)
• Use regex pattern for mypy command for tox / make lint linting commands. (#2734)
• Remove internal method apply_formatter_to_array and use the method with the same name from the
eth-utils library. (#2737)

Miscellaneous changes

• #2751

Breaking changes

• Snakecase the processReceipt, processLog, createFilter, and getLogs methods (#2709)

• Remove Parity module and references. (#2718)
• Make the ipfshttpclient library opt-in via a web3 install extra. This only affects the ethpm ipfs backends,
which rely on the library. (#2730)

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2.3.28 v6.0.0-beta.8 (2022-11-14)

Features

• Async support for caching certain methods via async_simple_cache_middleware as well as constructing
custom async caching middleware via async_construct_simple_cache_middleware. SimpleCache class
was also added to the public utils module. (#2579)
• Remove upper pins on dependencies (#2648)
• Async support for beacon api. (#2689)
• If the loop for a cached async session is closed, or the session itself was closed, create a new session at that cache
key and properly close and evict the stale session. (#2713)

Bugfixes

• bump sphinx_rtd_theme version to fix missing unordered list bullets (#2688)

• Fix bug to generate unique cache keys when multi-threading & with unique event loops for async. (#2690)
• Properly release async_lock for session requests if an exception is raised during a task. (#2695)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• move definition of RTD install requirements file from their dashboard into .readthedocs.yml, and remove unused
sphinx-better-theme from requirements (#2688)

Miscellaneous changes

• #2690, #2694

Breaking changes

• Remove support for dictionary-based caches, for simple-cache-middleware, in favor of the internal SimpleCache
class. (#2579)
• Snakecase the clientVersion method (#2686)
• change instances of createFilter to create_filter (#2692)
• Remove SolidityError in favor of ContractLogicError (#2697)
• Snakecase the solidityKeccak method (#2702)
• Snakecase the fromWeb3 method (#2703)
• Snakecase the toBytes, toHex, toInt, toJSON, and toText methods (#2707)
• Snakecase the toAddress, isChecksumAddress, and toChecksumAddress methods (#2708)

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2.3.29 v6.0.0-beta.7 (2022-10-19)

Bugfixes

• Protobuf dependency had a DoS-able bug. It was fixed in v4.21.6. See: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/
CVE-2022-1941 (#2666)

Improved Documentation

• Added Chainstack link to quickstart docs. (#2677)

Deprecations and Removals

• Remove Ropsten auto provider and the relevant references to Ropsten across the repo (#2672)

Internal Changes - for web3.py Contributors

• Clean up remaining uses of deprecated eth_abi methods. (#2668)

Miscellaneous changes

• #2671, #2682

2.3.30 v6.0.0-beta.6 (2022-09-26)

Bugfixes

• Protobuf dependency breaks at version 3.20.2 and above; pin to 3.20.1 for now. (#2657)

Features

• Add new predefined block identifiers safe and finalized. (#2652)

2.3.31 v6.0.0-beta.5 (2022-09-19)

Breaking Changes

• Removed IBAN since it was an unused feature (#2537)

• Update eth-tester dependency to v0.7.0-beta.1; Update eth-account version to >=0.7.0,<0.8.0 (#2623)
• Remove WEB3_INFURA_API_KEY environment variable in favor of WEB3_INFURA_PROJECT_ID. Change
InfuraKeyNotFound exception to InfuraProjectIdNotFound (#2634)
• Remove Kovan auto provider (#2635)
• Snakecase the isConnected method (#2643)
• Snakecase the toWei and fromWei methods (#2647)

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Bugfixes

• Fix eth-tester key remapping for logsBloom and receiptsRoot (#1630)

• Improve upon issues with session caching - better support for multithreading and make sure session eviction
from cache does not happen prematurely. (#2409)
• Allow classes to inherit from the Web3 class by attaching modules appropriately. (#2592)
• fixed bug in how async_eth_tester_middleware fills default fields (#2600)
• Allow hex for value field when validating via validate_payable() contracts method (#2602)
• Update Beacon API to v2.3.0 (#2616)
• Move flaky option to top-level conftest.py (#2642)

Documentation Updates

• Update Proof of Authority middleware (geth_poa_middleware) documentation for better clarity. (#2538)
• Add some missing supported async middlewares to docs. (#2574)
• Introduce AsyncENS and availability on w3 instance in ENS guide. (#2585)
• Fix typo in eth.call docs (#2613)
• remove section for deleted account.recoverHash method (#2615)
• examples docs gave incorrect return type for eth.get_transaction, fixed (#2617)
• minor typo fix in contracts overview (#2628)
• fix bug in Deploying new contracts example (#2646)

Features

• Support for Account class access in AsyncEth via async_w3.eth.account (#2580)

• Expose public abi utility methods: get_abi_output_names() and get_abi_input_names() (#2596)
• update all references to deprecated eth_abi.encode_abi to eth_abi.encode (#2621)
• update all references to deprecated eth_abi.decode_abi to eth_abi.decode (#2636)
• Add Sepolia auto provider (#2639)

Misc

• #2603, #2622, #2630, #2638

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2.3.32 v6.0.0-beta.4 (2022-07-13)

Breaking Changes

• sha3 and soliditySha3 were previously deprecated and now removed (#2479)
• Remove deprecated methods from Geth, Parity and Net modules (#2480)
• Provide better messaging to wrong arguments for contract functions, especially for tuple argument types.
(#2556)

Bugfixes

• Properly format block_number for eth_getTransactionCount when using EthereumTesterProvider

(#1801)
• removed Optional type hints for passphrase arguments that aren’t actually optional (#2511)
• Fix is_dynamic_fee_transaction and TRANSACTION_DEFAULTS when gas_price_strategy returns zero
(#2562)

Documentation Updates

• Remove deprecated methods from Geth, Parity, and Net modules (#2480)
• replace double- with single-quotes to make f-string valid (#2504)
• added geth personal_sign and personal_ec_recover documentation (#2511)

Features

• Add transaction result formatters for type and chainId to convert values to int if hexadecimal if the field is not
null (#2491)
• Add a global flag on the provider for enabling / disabling CCIP Read for calls: global_ccip_read_enabled
(defaults to True). (#2499)
• Deprecate Geth Admin StartRPC and StopRPC for StartHTTP and StopHTTP (#2507)
• Added Async support for ENS (#2547)
• support multi-dimensional arrays for ABI tuples types (#2555)

Misc

• #2345, #2483, #2505, #2513, #2514, #2515, #2516, #2518, #2520, #2521, #2522, #2523, #2524, #2525, #2527,
#2530, #2531, #2534, #2542, #2544, #2550, #2551, #2559

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2.3.33 v6.0.0-beta.3 (2022-06-01)

Breaking Changes

• Removed deprecated methods from eth and geth (#1416)

Bugfixes

• Fix bug in _is_latest_block_number_request in cache middleware (#2185)

• Increase cache size to allow for 20 entries. (#2477)
• format receipt.type to int and log.data to HexBytes (#2482)
• Only thread lock for methods attempting to access the cache for caching middleware. (#2496)

Documentation Updates

• Fix typo in simple_cache_middleware example (#2449)

• Fix dict type hints in EventScanner example (#2469)
• Add clarification around ValueError and Local Signing middleware (#2474)

Features

• Add async version of contract functionality (#2270)

• ENSIP-10 / wildcard resolution support for ENS module (#2411)
• CCIP Read support and finalize implementation of and add tests for ENS offchain resolution support (#2457)

Misc

• #2454, #2450, #2462, #2471, #2478

2.3.34 v6.0.0-beta.2 (2022-04-27)

Breaking Changes

• Audit .rst and .py files and convert all Web3 instance variable names to w3 to avoid confusion with the web3
module. (#1183)
• Update dependency requirements: - eth-utils - eth-abi - eth-tester - eth-account - eth-typing (#2342)
• Add attach_methods() to Module class to facilitate attaching methods to modules. (#2383)
• Move IOError -> OSError (#2434)

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Documentation Updates

• Clarify info about Infura filters over HTTP (#2322)

• Document reading private keys from environment variables (#2380)
• Add example for the construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware when connected to a hosted node (#2410)
• Doc fix: Pending transaction filter returns a TransactionFilter not a BlockFilter (#2444)

Features

• Add ‘get_text’ method to look up ENS text record values (#2286)

• For ENS.name(), validate that the forward resolution returns the same address as provided by the user as per the
ENS documentation recommendation for Reverse Resolution. (#2420)
• Add sync chain_id to simple_middleware_cache (#2425)

Misc

• #2369, #2372, #2418

2.3.35 v6.0.0-beta.1 (2022-02-28)

Breaking Changes

• Update websockets dependency to v10+ (#2324)

• Remove support for the unsupported Python 3.6 Also removes outdated Parity tests (#2343)
• Update Sphinx requirement to >=4.2.0,<5 (#2362)

Bugfixes

• Fix types for gas, and gasLimit: Wei -> int. Also fix types for effectiveGasPrice: (int -> Wei)
(#2330)

Features

• Added session caching to the AsyncHTTPProvider (#2016)

• Add support for Python 3.10 (#2175)
• Added ‘Breaking Changes’ and ‘Deprecations’ categories to our release notes (#2340)
• Add async eth.get_storage_at method (#2350)
• Upgrade jsonschema version to >=4.0.0<5 (#2361)

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Misc

• #2353, #2365

2.3.36 v5.28.0 (2022-02-09)

Features

• Added Async functions for Geth Personal and Admin modules (#1413)
• async support for formatting, validation, and geth poa middlewares (#2098)
• Calculate a default maxPriorityFeePerGas using eth_feeHistory when eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas is
not available, since the latter is not a part of the Ethereum JSON-RPC specs and only supported by certain clients.
(#2259)
• Allow NamedTuples in ABI inputs (#2312)
• Add async eth.syncing method (#2331)

Bugfixes

• remove ens.utils.dict_copy decorator (#1423)

• The exception retry middleware whitelist was missing a comma between txpool and testing (#2327)
• Properly initialize external modules that do not inherit from the web3.module.Module class (#2328)

2.3.37 v5.27.0 (2022-01-31)

Features

• Added Async functions for Geth TxPool (#1413)

• external modules are no longer required to inherit from the web3.module.Module class (#2304)
• Add async eth.get_logs method (#2310)
• add Async access to default_account and default_block (#2315)
• Update eth-tester and eth-account dependencies to pull in bugfix from eth-keys (#2320)

Bugfixes

• Fixed issues with parsing tuples and nested tuples in event logs (#2211)
• In ENS the contract function to resolve an ENS address was being called twice in error. One of those calls was
removed. (#2318)
• to_hexbytes block formatters no longer throw when value is None (#2321)

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Improved Documentation

• fix typo in eth.account docs (#2111)

• explicitly add output_values to contracts example (#2293)
• update imports for AsyncHTTPProvider sample code (#2302)
• fixed broken link to filter schema (#2303)
• add github link to the main docs landing page (#2313)
• fix typos and update referenced geth version (#2326)

Misc

• #2217

2.3.38 v5.26.0 (2022-01-06)

Features

• Add middlewares property to NamedElementOnion / web3.middleware_onion. Returns current middle-

wares in proper order for importing into a new Web3 instance (#2239)
• Add async eth.hashrate method (#2243)
• Add async eth.chain_id method (#2251)
• Add async eth.mining method (#2252)
• Add async eth.get_transaction_receipt and eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt methods (#2265)
• Add async eth.accounts method (#2284)
• Support for attaching external modules to the Web3 instance when instantiating the Web3 instance, via the
external_modules argument, or via the new attach_modules() method (#2288)

Bugfixes

• Fixed doctest that wasn’t running in docs/contracts.rst (#2213)

• Key mapping fix to eth-tester middleware for access list storage keys (#2224)
• Inherit Web3 instance middlewares when instantiating ENS with ENS.fromWeb3() method (#2239)

Improved Documentation

• Fix example docs to show a TransactionNotFound error, instead of None (#2199)

• fix typo in ethpm.rst (#2277)
• Clarify provider usage in Quickstart docs (#2287)
• Address common BSC usage question (#2289)

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• #1729, #2233, #2242, #2260, #2261, #2283

2.3.39 v5.25.0 (2021-11-19)

Features

• Support for w3.eth.get_raw_transaction_by_block, and async support for w3.eth.

get_raw_transaction_by_block (#2209)

Bugfixes

• BadResponseFormat error thrown instead of KeyError when a response gets sent back without a result key.
(#2188)

Improved Documentation

• Correct link to Websocket library documentation (#2173)

• Doc update to make it clearer that enable_unstable_package_management() method is on the web3 instance
(#2208)

Misc

• #2102, #2179, #2191, #2201, #2205, #2212

2.3.40 v5.24.0 (2021-09-27)

Features

• Add async eth.send_raw_transaction method (#2135)

• Updated eth-account version to v0.5.6 - adds support for signing typed transactions without needing to explicitly
set the transaction type and now accepts correct JSON-RPC structure for accessList for typed transactions (#2157)

Bugfixes

• Encode block_count as hex before making eth_feeHistory RPC call (#2117)

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Improved Documentation

• Fix typo in AsyncHTTPProvider docs (#2131)

• Update AsyncHTTPProvider doc Supported Methods to include web3.eth.send_raw_transaction().
(#2135)
• Improve messaging around usage and implementation questions, directing users to the appropriate channel
(#2138)
• Clarify some contract ValueError error messages. (#2146)
• Updated docs for w3.eth.account.sign_transaction to reflect that transaction type is no longer needed to suc-
cessfully sign typed transactions and to illustrate how to structure an optional accessList parameter in a typed
transaction (#2157)

Misc

• #2105

2.3.41 v5.23.1 (2021-08-27)

Features

• Add constants for the zero address, zero hash, max int, and wei per ether. (#2109)

Improved Documentation

• Renamed “1559 transaction” to “dynamic fee transaction” where appropriate to keep consistency among the
general code base for 1559 transaction (type=2) naming (#2118)
• Update AsyncHTTPProvider doc example to include modules and middlewares keyword arguments (#2123)

Misc

• #2110, #2118, #2122

2.3.42 v5.23.0 (2021-08-12)

Features

• Add support for eth_feeHistory RPC method (#2038)

• Add support for eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas RPC method (#2100)

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Bugfixes

• Hot fix for string interpolation issue with contract function call decoding exception to facilitate extracting a
meaningful message from the eth_call response (#2096)
• Bypass adding a gasPrice via the gas price strategy, if one is set, when EIP-1559 transaction params are used
for send_transaction (#2099)

Improved Documentation

• Update feeHistory docs (#2104)

2.3.43 v5.22.0 (2021-08-02)

Features

• Add support for eth_getRawTransactionByHash RPC method (#2039)

• Add AsyncNet module (#2044)
• Add async eth.get_balance, eth.get_code, eth.get_transaction_count methods. (#2056)
• eth_signTransaction support for eip-1559 params ‘maxFeePerGas’ and ‘maxPriorityFeePerGas’ (#2082)
• Add support for async w3.eth.call. (#2083)

Bugfixes

• If a transaction hash was passed as a string rather than a HexByte to w3.eth.

wait_for_transaction_receipt, and the time was exhausted before the transaction is in the chain,
the error being raised was a TypeError instead of the correct TimeExhausted error. This is because the to_hex
method in the TimeExhausted error message expects a primitive as the first argument, and a string doesn’t
qualify as a primitive. Fixed by converting the transaction_hash to HexBytes instead. (#2068)
• Hot fix for a string interpolation issue in message when BadFunctionCallOutput is raised for
call_contract_function() (#2069)
• fill_transaction_defaults() no longer sets a default gasPrice if 1559 fees are present in the transaction
parameters. This fixes sign-and-send middleware issues with 1559 fees. (#2092)

Improved Documentation

• Clarify that send_transaction, modify_transaction, and replace_transaction return HexByte objects

instead of strings. (#2058)
• Added troubleshooting section for Microsoft Visual C++ error on Windows machines (#2077)
• Updated the sign-and-send middleware docs to include EIP-1559 as well as legacy transaction examples (#2092)

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Misc

• #2073, #2080, #2085

2.3.44 v5.21.0 (2021-07-12)

Features

• Adds support for EIP 1559 transaction keys: maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas (#2060)

Bugfixes

• Bugfix where an error response got passed to a function expecting a block identifier.
Split out null result formatters from the error formatters and added some tests. (#2022)
• Fix broken tests and use the new 1559 params for most of our test transactions. (#2053)
• Set a default maxFeePerGas value consistent with Geth (#2055)
• Fix bug in geth PoA middleware where a None response should throw a BlockNotFound error, but was instead
throwing an AttributeError (#2064)

Improved Documentation

• Added general documentation on unit and integration testing and how to contribute to our test suite. (#2053)

2.3.45 v5.20.1 (2021-07-01)

Bugfixes

• Have the geth dev IPC auto connection check for the WEB3_PROVIDER_URI environment variable. (#2023)

Improved Documentation

• Remove reference to allowing multiple providers in docs (#2018)

• Update “Contract Deployment Example” docs to use py-solc-x as solc is no longer maintained. (#2020)
• Detail using unreleased Geth builds in CI (#2037)
• Clarify that a missing trie node error could occur when using block_identifier with .call() on a node that
isn’t running in archive mode (#2048)

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Misc

• #1938, #2015, #2021, #2025, #2028, #2029, #2035

2.3.46 v5.20.0 (2021-06-09)

Features

• Add new AsyncHTTPProvider. No middleware or session caching support yet.

Also adds async w3.eth.gas_price, and async w3.isConnected() methods. (#1978)
• Add ability for AsyncHTTPProvider to accept middleware
Also adds async gas_price_strategy middleware, and moves gas estimate to middleware.
AsyncEthereumTesterProvider now inherits from AsyncBase (#1999)
• Support state_override in contract function call. (#2005)

Bugfixes

• Test ethpm caching + bump Sphinx version. (#1977)

Improved Documentation

• Clarify solidityKeccak documentation. (#1971)

• Improve contributor documentation context and ordering. (#2008)
• Add docs for unstable AsyncHTTPProvider (#2017)

Misc

• #1979, #1980, #1993, #2002

2.3.47 v5.19.0 (2021-04-28)

Features

• Handle optional eth_call state override param. (#1921)

• Add list_storage_keys deprecate listStorageKeys (#1944)
• Add net_peers deprecate netPeers (#1946)
• Add trace_replay_transaction deprecate traceReplayTransaction (#1949)
• Add add_reserved_peer deprecate addReservedPeer (#1951)
• Add parity.set_mode, deprecate parity.setMode (#1954)
• Add parity.trace_raw_transaction, deprecate parity.traceRawTransaction (#1955)
• Add parity.trace_call, deprecate parity.traceCall (#1957)
• Add trace_filter deprecate traceFilter (#1960)

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• Add trace_block, deprecate traceBlock (#1961)

• Add trace_replay_block_transactions, deprecate traceReplayBlockTransactions (#1962)
• Add parity.trace_transaction, deprecate parity.traceTransaction (#1963)

Improved Documentation

• Document eth_call state overrides. (#1965)

Misc

• #1774, #1805, #1945, #1964

2.3.48 v5.18.0 (2021-04-08)

Features

• Add w3.eth.modify_transaction deprecate w3.eth.modifyTransaction (#1886)

• Add w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt, deprecate w3.eth.getTransactionReceipt (#1893)
• Add w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt deprecate w3.eth.waitForTransactionReceipt
(#1896)
• Add w3.eth.set_contract_factory deprecate w3.eth.setContractFactory (#1900)
• Add w3.eth.generate_gas_price deprecate w3.eth.generateGasPrice (#1905)
• Add w3.eth.set_gas_price_strategy deprecate w3.eth.setGasPriceStrategy (#1906)
• Add w3.eth.estimate_gas deprecate w3.eth.estimateGas (#1913)
• Add w3.eth.sign_typed_data deprecate w3.eth.signTypedData (#1915)
• Add w3.eth.get_filter_changes deprecate w3.eth.getFilterChanges (#1916)
• Add eth.get_filter_logs, deprecate eth.getFilterLogs (#1919)
• Add eth.uninstall_filter, deprecate eth.uninstallFilter (#1920)
• Add w3.eth.get_logs deprecate w3.eth.getLogs (#1925)
• Add w3.eth.submit_hashrate deprecate w3.eth.submitHashrate (#1926)
• Add w3.eth.submit_work deprecate w3.eth.submitWork (#1927)
• Add w3.eth.get_work, deprecate w3.eth.getWork (#1934)
• Adds public get_block_number method. (#1937)

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Improved Documentation

• Add ABI type examples to docs (#1890)

• Promote the new Ethereum Python Discord server on the README. (#1898)
• Escape reserved characters in install script of Contributing docs. (#1909)
• Add detailed event filtering examples. (#1910)
• Add docs example for tuning log levels. (#1928)
• Add some performance tips in troubleshooting docs. (#1929)
• Add existing contract interaction to docs examples. (#1933)
• Replace Gitter links with the Python Discord server. (#1936)

Misc

• #1887, #1907, #1917, #1930, #1935

2.3.49 v5.17.0 (2021-02-24)

Features

• Added get_transaction_count, and deprecated getTransactionCount (#1844)

• Add w3.eth.send_transaction, deprecate w3.eth.sendTransaction (#1878)
• Add web3.eth.sign_transaction, deprecate web3.eth.signTransaction (#1879)
• Add w3.eth.send_raw_transaction, deprecate w3.eth.sendRawTransaction (#1880)
• Add w3.eth.replace_transaction deprecate w3.eth.replaceTransaction (#1882)

Improved Documentation

• Fix return type of send_transaction in docs. (#686)

2.3.50 v5.16.0 (2021-02-04)

Features

• Added get_block_transaction_count, and deprecated getBlockTransactionCount (#1841)

• Move defaultAccount to default_account. Deprecate defaultAccount. (#1848)
• Add eth.default_block, deprecate eth.defaultBlock. Also adds parity.default_block, and depre-
cates parity.defaultBlock. (#1849)
• Add eth.gas_price, deprecate eth.gasPrice (#1850)
• Added eth.block_number property. Deprecated eth.blockNumber (#1851)
• Add eth.chain_id, deprecate eth.chainId (#1852)
• Add eth.protocol_version, deprecate eth.protocolVersion (#1853)

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• Add eth.get_code, deprecate eth.getCode (#1856)

• Deprecate eth.getProof, add eth.get_proof (#1857)
• Add eth.get_transaction, deprecate eth.getTransaction (#1858)
• Add eth.get_transaction_by_block, deprecate eth.getTransactionByBlock (#1859)
• Add get_uncle_by_block, deprecate getUncleByBlock (#1862)
• Add get_uncle_count, deprecate getUncleCount (#1863)

Bugfixes

• Fix event filter creation if the event ABI contains a values key. (#1807)

Improved Documentation

• Remove v5 breaking changes link from the top of the release notes. (#1837)
• Add account creation troubleshooting docs. (#1855)
• Document passing a struct into a contract function. (#1860)
• Add instance configuration troubleshooting docs. (#1865)
• Clarify nonce lookup in sendRawTransaction docs. (#1866)
• Updated docs for web3.eth methods: eth.getTransactionReceipt and eth.waitForTransactionReceipt (#1868)

2.3.51 v5.15.0 (2021-01-15)

Features

• Add get_storage_at method and deprecate getStorageAt. (#1828)

• Add eth.get_block method and deprecate eth.getBlock. (#1829)

Bugfixes

• PR #1585 changed the error that was coming back from eth-tester when the Revert opcode was called, which
broke some tests in downstream libraries. This PR reverts back to raising the original error. (#1813)
• Added a new ContractLogicError for when a contract reverts a transaction. ContractLogicError will
replace SolidityError, in v6. (#1814)

Improved Documentation

• Introduce Beacon API documentation (#1836)

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• #1602, #1827, #1831, #1833, #1834

2.3.52 v5.14.0 (2021-01-05)

Bugfixes

• Remove docs/web3.* from the gitignore to allow for the beacon docs to be added to git, and add beacon to the
default web3 modules that get loaded. (#1824)
• Remove auto-documenting from the Beacon API (#1825)

Features

• Introduce experimental Ethereum 2.0 beacon node API (#1758)

• Add new get_balance method on Eth class. Deprecated getBalance. (#1806)

Misc

• #1815, #1816

2.3.53 v5.13.1 (2020-12-03)

Bugfixes

• Handle revert reason parsing for Ganache (#1794)

Improved Documentation

• Document Geth and Parity/OpenEthereum fixture generation (#1787)

Misc

• #1778, #1780, #1790, #1791, #1796

2.3.54 v5.13.0 (2020-10-29)

Features

• Raise SolidityError exceptions that contain the revert reason when a call fails. (#941)

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Bugfixes

• Update eth-tester dependency to fix tester environment install version conflict. (#1782)

Misc

• #1757, #1767

2.3.55 v5.12.3 (2020-10-21)

Misc

• #1752, #1759, #1773, #1775

2.3.56 v5.12.2 (2020-10-12)

Bugfixes

• Address the use of multiple providers in the docs (#1701)

• Remove stale connection errors from docs (#1737)
• Allow ENS name resolution for methods that use the Method class (#1749)

Misc

• #1727, #1728, #1733, #1735, #1741, #1746, #1748, #1753, #1768

2.3.57 v5.12.1 (2020-09-02)

Misc

• #1708, #1709, #1715, #1722, #1724

2.3.58 v5.12.0 (2020-07-16)

Features

• Update web3.pm and ethpm module to EthPM v3 specification. (#1652)

• Allow consumer to initialize HttpProvider with their own requests.Session. This allows the HttpAdapter con-
nection pool to be tuned as desired. (#1469)

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Improved Documentation

• Use ethpm v3 packages in examples documentation. (#1683)

• Modernize the deploy contract example. (#1679)
• Add contribution guidelines and a code of conduct. (#1691)

Misc

• #1687
• #1690

2.3.59 v5.12.0-beta.3 (2020-07-15)

Bugfixes

• Include ethpm-spec solidity examples in distribution. (#1686)

2.3.60 v5.12.0-beta.2 (2020-07-14)

Bugfixes

• Support ethpm-spec submodule in distributions. (#1682)

Improved Documentation

• Modernize the deploy contract example. (#1679)

• Use ethpm v3 packages in examples documentation. (#1683)

2.3.61 v5.12.0-beta.1 (2020-07-09)

Features

• Allow consumer to initialize HttpProvider with their own requests.Session. This allows the HttpAdapter con-
nection pool to be tuned as desired. (#1469)
• Update web3.pm and ethpm module to EthPM v3 specification. (#1652)

Bugfixes

• Update outdated reference url in ethpm docs and tests. (#1680)

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Improved Documentation

• Add a getBalance() example and provide more context for using the fromWei and toWei utility methods.
(#1676)
• Overhaul the Overview documentation to provide a tour of major features. (#1681)

2.3.62 v5.11.1 (2020-06-17)

Bugfixes

• Added formatter rules for eth_tester middleware to allow getBalance() by using integer block numbers (#1660)
• Fix type annotations within the eth.py module. Several arguments that defaulted to None were not declared
Optional. (#1668)
• Fix type annotation warning when using string URI to instantiate an HTTP or WebsocketProvider. (#1669)
• Fix type annotations within the web3 modules. Several arguments that defaulted to None were not declared
Optional. (#1670)

Improved Documentation

• Breaks up links into three categories (Intro, Guides, and API) and adds content to the index page: a lib introduc-
tion and some “Getting Started” links. (#1671)
• Fills in some gaps in the Quickstart guide and adds provider connection details for local nodes. (#1673)

2.3.63 v5.11.0 (2020-06-03)

Features

• Accept a block identifier in the Contract.estimateGas method. Includes a related upgrade of eth-tester to
v0.5.0-beta.1. (#1639)
• Introduce a more specific validation error, ExtraDataLengthError. This enables tools to detect when someone
may be connected to a POA network, for example, and provide a smoother developer experience. (#1666)

Bugfixes

• Correct the type annotations of FilterParams.address (#1664)

Improved Documentation

• Corrects the return value of getTransactionReceipt, description of caching middleware, and deprecated
method names. (#1663)
• Corrects documentation of websocket timeout configuration. (#1665)

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2.3.64 v5.10.0 (2020-05-18)

Features

• An update of eth-tester includes a change of the default fork from Constantinople to Muir Glacier. #1636

Bugfixes

• my_contract.events.MyEvent was incorrectly annotated so that MyEvent was marked as a ContractEvent

instance. Fixed to be a class type, i.e., Type[ContractEvent]. (#1646)
• IPCProvider correctly handled pathlib.Path input, but warned against its type. Fixed to permit Path objects
in addition to strings. (#1647)

Misc

• #1636

2.3.65 v5.9.0 (2020-04-30)

Features

• Upgrade eth-account to use v0.5.2+. eth-account 0.5.2 adds support for hd accounts
Also had to pin eth-keys to get dependencies to resolve. (#1622)

Bugfixes

• Fix local_filter_middleware new entries bug (#1514)

• ENS name and ENS address can return None. Fixes return types. (#1633)

2.3.66 v5.8.0 (2020-04-23)

Features

• Introduced list_wallets method to the GethPersonal class. (#1516)

• Added block_identifier parameter to ContractConstructor.estimateGas method. (#1588)
• Add snake_case methods to Geth and Parity Personal Modules.
Deprecate camelCase methods. (#1589)
• Added new weighted keyword argument to the time based gas price strategy.
If True, it will more give more weight to more recent block times. (#1614)
• Adds support for Solidity’s new(ish) receive function.
Adds a new contract API that mirrors the existing fallback API: contract.receive (#1623)

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Bugfixes

• Fixed hasattr overloader method in the web3.ContractEvent, web3.ContractFunction, and web3.ContractCaller

classes by implementing a try/except handler that returns False if an exception is raised in the __getattr__ over-
loader method (since __getattr__ HAS to be called in every __hasattr__ call).
Created two new Exception classes, ‘ABIEventFunctionNotFound’ and ‘ABIFunctionNotFound’, which inherit
from both AttributeError and MismatchedABI, and replaced the MismatchedABI raises in ContractEvent, Con-
tractFunction, and ContractCaller with a raise to the created class in the __getattr__ overloader method of the
object. (#1594)
• Change return type of rpc_gas_price_strategy from int to Wei (#1612)

Improved Documentation

• Fix typo in “Internals” docs. Changed asyncronous –> asynchronous (#1607)

• Improve documentation that introduces and troubleshoots Providers. (#1609)
• Add documentation for when to use each transaction method. (#1610)
• Remove incorrect web3 for w3 in doc example (#1615)
• Add examples for using web3.contract via the ethpm module. (#1617)
• Add dark mode to documentation. Also fixes a bunch of formatting issues in docs. (#1626)

Misc

• #1545

2.3.67 v5.7.0 (2020-03-16)

Features

• Add snake_case methods for the net module

Also moved net module to use ModuleV2 instead of Module (#1592)

Bugfixes

• Fix return type of eth_getCode. Changed from Hexstr to HexBytes. (#1601)

Misc

• #1590

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2.3.68 v5.6.0 (2020-02-26)

Features

• Add snake_case methods to Geth Miner class, deprecate camelCase methods (#1579)
• Add snake_case methods for the net module, deprecate camelCase methods (#1581)
• Add PEP561 type marker (#1583)

Bugfixes

• Increase replacement tx minimum gas price bump

Parity/OpenEthereum requires a replacement transaction’s gas to be a minimum of 12.5% higher than the original
(vs. Geth’s 10%). (#1570)

2.3.69 v5.5.1 (2020-02-10)

Improved Documentation

• Documents the getUncleCount method. (#1534)

Misc

• #1576

2.3.70 v5.5.0 (2020-02-03)

Features

• ENS had to release a new registry to push a bugfix. See this article for background information. web3.py uses
the new registry for all default ENS interactions, now. (#1573)

Bugfixes

• Minor bugfix in how ContractCaller looks up abi functions. (#1552)

• Update modules to use compatible typing-extensions import. (#1554)
• Make ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields checksum addresses in returned transaction receipts (#1562)
• Use local Trinity’s IPC socket if it is available, for newer versions of Trinity. (#1563)

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Improved Documentation

• Add Matomo Tracking to Docs site.

Matomo is an Open Source web analytics platform that allows us to get better insights and optimize for our
audience without the negative consequences of other compareable platforms.
Read more: https://matomo.org/why-matomo/ (#1541)
• Fix web3 typo in docs (#1559)

Misc

• #1521, #1546, #1571

2.3.71 v5.4.0 (2019-12-06)

Features

• Add __str__ to IPCProvider (#1536)

Bugfixes

• Add required typing-extensions library to setup.py (#1544)

2.3.72 v5.3.1 (2019-12-05)

Bugfixes

• Only apply hexbytes formatting to r and s values in transaction if present (#1531)

• Update eth-utils dependency which contains mypy bugfix. (#1537)

Improved Documentation

• Update Contract Event documentation to show correct example (#1515)

• Add documentation to methods that raise an error in v5 instead of returning None (#1527)

Misc

• #1518, #1532

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2.3.73 v5.3.0 (2019-11-14)

Features

• Support handling ENS domains in ERC1319 URIs. (#1489)

Bugfixes

• Make local block filter return empty list when when no blocks mined (#1255)
• Google protobuf dependency was updated to 3.10.0 (#1493)
• Infura websocket provider works when no secret key is present (#1501)

Improved Documentation

• Update Quickstart instructions to use the auto Infura module instead of the more complicated web3 auto module
(#1482)
• Remove outdated py.test command from readme (#1483)

Misc

• #1461, #1471, #1475, #1476, #1479, #1488, #1492, #1498

2.3.74 v5.2.2 (2019-10-21)

Features

• Add poll_latency to waitForTransactionReceipt (#1453)

Bugfixes

• Fix flaky Parity whisper module test (#1473)

Misc

• #1472, #1474

2.3.75 v5.2.1 (2019-10-17)

Improved Documentation

• Update documentation for unlock account duration (#1464)

• Clarify module installation command for OSX>=10.15 (#1467)

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Misc

• #1468

2.3.76 v5.2.0 (2019-09-26)

Features

• Add enable_strict_bytes_type_checking flag to web3 instance (#1419)

• Move Geth Whisper methods to snake case and deprecate camel case methods (#1433)

Bugfixes

• Add null check to logsbloom formatter (#1445)

Improved Documentation

• Reformat autogenerated towncrier release notes (#1460)

2.3.77 Web3 5.1.0 (2019-09-18)

Features

• Add contract_types property to Package class. (#1440)

Bugfixes

• Fix flaky parity integration test in the whisper module (#1147)

Improved Documentation

• Remove whitespace, move topics key -> topic in Geth docs (#1425)
• Enforce stricter doc checking, turning warnings into errors to fail CI builds to catch issues quickly.
Add missing web3.tools.rst to the table of contents and fix incorrectly formatted JSON example. (#1437)
• Add example using Geth POA Middleware with Infura Rinkeby Node (#1444)

Misc

• #1446, #1451

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2.3.78 v5.0.2

Released August 22, 2019

• Bugfixes
– [ethPM] Fix bug in package id and release id fetching strategy - #1427

2.3.79 v5.0.1

Released August 15, 2019

• Bugfixes
– [ethPM] Add begin/close chars to package name regex - #1418
– [ethPM] Update deployments to work when only abi available - #1417
– Fix tuples handled incorrectly in decode_function_input - #1410
• Misc
– Eliminate signTransaction warning - #1404

2.3.80 v5.0.0

Released August 1, 2019

• Features
– web3.eth.chainId now returns an integer instead of hex - #1394
• Bugfixes
– Deprecation Warnings now show for methods that have a @combomethod decorator - #1401
• Misc
– [ethPM] Add ethPM to the docker file - #1405
• Docs
– Docs are updated to use checksummed addresses - #1390
– Minor doc formatting fixes - #1338 & #1345

2.3.81 v5.0.0-beta.5

Released July 31, 2019

This is intended to be the final release before the stable v5 release.
• Features
– Parity operating mode can be read and set - #1355
– Process a single event log, instead of a whole transaction receipt - #1354
• Docs
– Remove doctest dependency on ethtoken - #1395
• Bugfixes

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– [ethPM] Bypass IPFS validation for large files - #1393

• Misc
– [ethPM] Update default Registry solidity contract - #1400
– [ethPM] Update web3.pm to use new simple Registry implementation - #1398
– Update dependency requirement formatting for releasing - #1403

2.3.82 v5.0.0-beta.4

Released July 18,2019

• Features
– [ethPM] Update registry uri to support basic uris w/o package id - #1389
• Docs
– Clarify in docs the return of Eth.sendRawTransaction() as a HexBytes object, not a string. - #1384
• Misc
– [ethPM] Migrate tests over from pytest-ethereum - #1385

2.3.83 v5.0.0-beta.3

Released July 15, 2019

• Features
– Add eth_getProof support - #1185
– Implement web3.pm.get_local_package() - #1372
– Update registry URIs to support chain IDs - #1382
– Add error flags to event.processReceipt - #1366
• Bugfixes
– Remove full IDNA processing in favor of UTS46 - #1364
• Misc
– Migrate py-ethpm library to web3/ethpm - #1379
– Relax canonical address requirement in ethPM - #1380
– Replace ethPM’s infura strategy with web3’s native infura support - #1383
– Change combine_argument_formatters to apply_formatters_to_sequence - #1360
– Move pytest.xfail instances to @pytest.mark.xfail - #1376
– Change net.version to eth.chainId in default transaction params - #1378

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2.3.84 v5.0.0-beta.2

Released May 13, 2019

• Features
– Mark deprecated sha3 method as static - #1350
– Upgrade to eth-account v0.4.0 - #1348
• Docs
– Add note about web3[tester] in documentation - #1325
• Misc
– Replace web3._utils.toolz imports with eth_utils.toolz - #1317

2.3.85 v5.0.0-beta.1

Released May 6, 2019

• Features
– Add support for tilda in provider IPC Path - #1049
– EIP 712 Signing Supported - #1319
• Docs
– Update contract example to use compile_standard - #1263
– Fix typo in middleware docs - #1339

2.3.86 v5.0.0-alpha.11

Released April 24, 2019

• Docs
– Add documentation for web3.py unit tests - #1324
• Misc
– Update deprecated collections.abc imports - #1334
– Fix documentation typo - #1335
– Upgrade eth-tester version - #1332

2.3.87 v5.0.0-alpha.10

Released April 15, 2019

• Features
– Add getLogs by blockHash - #1269
– Implement chainId endpoint - #1295
– Moved non-standard JSON-RPC endpoints to applicable Parity/Geth docs. Deprecated web3.version for
web3.api - #1290

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– Moved Whisper endpoints to applicable Geth or Parity namespace - #1308

– Added support for Goerli provider - #1286
– Added addReservedPeer to Parity module - #1311
• Bugfixes
– Cast gas price values to integers in gas strategies - #1297
– Missing constructor function no longer ignores constructor args - #1316
• Misc
– Require eth-utils >= 1.4, downgrade Go version for integration tests - #1310
– Fix doc build warnings - #1331
– Zip Fixture data - #1307
– Update Geth version for integration tests - #1301
– Remove unneeded testrpc - #1322
– Add ContractCaller docs to v5 migration guide - #1323

2.3.88 v5.0.0-alpha.9

Released March 26, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Raise error if there is no Infura API Key - #1294 & - #1299
• Misc
– Upgraded Parity version for integration testing - #1292

2.3.89 v5.0.0-alpha.8

Released March 20, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Removed web3/utils directory in favor of web3/_utils - #1282
– Relocated personal RPC endpoints to Parity and Geth class - #1211
– Deprecated web3.net.chainId(), web3.eth.getCompilers(), and web3.eth.
getTransactionFromBlock(). Removed web3.eth.enableUnauditedFeatures() - #1270
– Relocated eth_protocolVersion and web3_clientVersion - #1274
– Relocated web3.txpool to web3.geth.txpool - #1275
– Relocated admin module to Geth namespace - #1288
– Relocated miner module to Geth namespace - #1287
• Features
– Implement eth_submitHashrate and eth_submitWork JSONRPC endpoints. - #1280
– Implement web3.eth.signTransaction - #1277
• Docs

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– Added v5 migration docs - #1284

2.3.90 v5.0.0-alpha.7

Released March 11, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Updated JSON-RPC calls that lookup txs or blocks to raise an error if lookup fails - #1218 and #1268
• Features
– Tuple ABI support - #1235
• Bugfixes
– One last middleware_stack was still hanging on. Changed to middleware_onion - #1262

2.3.91 v5.0.0-alpha.6

Released February 25th, 2019

• Features
– New NoABIFound error for cases where there is no ABI - #1247
• Misc
– Interact with Infura using an API Key. Key will be required after March 27th. - #1232
– Remove process_type utility function in favor of eth-abi functionality - #1249

2.3.92 v5.0.0-alpha.5

Released February 13th, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Remove deprecated buildTransaction, call, deploy, estimateGas, and transact methods - #1232
• Features
– Adds Web3.toJSON method - #1173
– Contract Caller API Implemented - #1227
– Add Geth POA middleware to use Rinkeby with Infura Auto - #1234
– Add manifest and input argument validation to pm.release_package() - #1237
• Misc
– Clean up intro and block/tx sections in Filter docs - #1223
– Remove unnecessary EncodingError exception catching - #1224
– Improvements to merge_args_and_kwargs utility function - #1228
– Update vyper registry assets - #1242

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2.3.93 v5.0.0-alpha.4

Released January 23rd, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Rename middleware_stack to middleware_onion - #1210
– Drop already deprecated web3.soliditySha3 - #1217
– ENS: Stop inferring .eth TLD on domain names - #1205
• Bugfixes
– Validate ethereum_tester class in EthereumTesterProvider - #1217
– Support getLogs() method without creating filters - #1192
• Features
– Stablize the PM module - #1125
– Implement async Version module - #1166
• Misc
– Update .gitignore to ignore .DS_Store and .mypy_cache/ - #1215
– Change CircleCI badge link to CircleCI project - #1214

2.3.94 v5.0.0-alpha.3

Released January 15th, 2019

• Breaking Changes
– Remove web3.miner.hashrate and web3.version.network - #1198
– Remove web3.providers.tester.EthereumTesterProvider and web3.providers.tester.
TestRPCProvider - #1199
– Change manager.providers from list to single manager.provider - #1200
– Replace deprecated web3.sha3 method with web3.keccak method - #1207
– Drop auto detect testnets for IPCProvider - #1206
• Bugfixes
– Add check to make sure blockHash exists - #1158
• Misc
– Remove some unreachable code in providers/base.py - #1160
– Migrate tester provider results from middleware to defaults - #1188
– Fix doc formatting for build_filter method - #1187
– Add ERC20 example in docs - #1178
– Code style improvements - #1194 & #1191
– Convert Web3 instance variables to w3 - #1186
– Update eth-utils dependencies and clean up other dependencies - #1195

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2.3.95 v5.0.0-alpha.2

Released December 20th, 2018

• Breaking Changes
– Remove support for python3.5, drop support for eth-abi v1 - #1163
• Features
– Support for custom ReleaseManager was fixed - #1165
• Misc
– Fix doctest nonsense with unicorn token - 3b2047
– Docs for installing web3 in FreeBSD - #1156
– Use latest python in readthedocs - #1162
– Use twine in release script - #1164
– Upgrade eth-tester, for eth-abi v2 support - #1168

2.3.96 v5.0.0-alpha.1

Released December 13th, 2018

• Features
– Add Rinkeby and Kovan Infura networks; made mainnet the default - #1150
– Add parity-specific listStorageKeys RPC - #1145
– Deprecated Web3.soliditySha3; use Web3.solidityKeccak instead. - #1139
– Add default trinity locations to IPC path guesser - #1121
– Add wss to AutoProvider - #1110
– Add timeout for WebsocketProvider - #1109
– Receipt timeout raises TimeExhausted - #1070
– Allow specification of block number for eth_estimateGas - #1046
• Misc
– Removed web3._utils.six support - #1116
– Upgrade eth-utils to 1.2.0 - #1104
– Require Python version 3.5.3 or greater - #1095
– Bump websockets version to 7.0.0 - #1146
– Bump parity test binary to 1.11.11 - #1064

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2.3.97 v4.8.2

Released November 15, 2018

• Misc
– Reduce unneeded memory usage - #1138

2.3.98 v4.8.1

Released October 28, 2018

• Features
– Add timeout for WebsocketProvider - #1119
– Reject transactions that send ether to non-payable contract functions - #1115
– Add Auto Infura Ropsten support: from web3.auto.infura.ropsten import w3 - #1124
– Auto-detect trinity IPC file location - #1129
• Misc
– Require Python >=3.5.3 - #1107
– Upgrade eth-tester and eth-utils - #1085
– Configure readthedocs dependencies - #1082
– soliditySha3 docs fixup - #1100
– Update ropsten faucet links in troubleshooting docs

2.3.99 v4.7.2

Released September 25th, 2018

• Bugfixes
– IPC paths starting with ~ are appropriately resolved to the home directory - #1072
– You can use the local signing middleware with bytes-type addresses - #1069

2.3.100 v4.7.1

Released September 11th, 2018

• Bugfixes
– old pip bug used during release made it impossible for non-windows users to install 4.7.0.

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2.3.101 v4.7.0

Released September 10th, 2018

• Features
– Add traceFilter method to the parity module. - #1051
– Move datastructures to public namespace datastructures to improve support for type checking. -
#1038
– Optimization to contract calls - #944
• Bugfixes
– ENS name resolution only attempted on mainnet by default. - #1037
– Fix attribute access error when attributedict middleware is not used. - #1040
• Misc - Upgrade eth-tester to 0.1.0-beta.32, and remove integration tests for py-ethereum. - Upgrade eth-hash to
0.2.0 with pycryptodome 3.6.6 which resolves a vulnerability.

2.3.102 v4.6.0

Released Aug 24, 2018

• Features
– Support for Python 3.7, most notably in WebsocketProvider - #996
– You can now decode a transaction’s data to its original function call and arguments with: contract.
decode_function_input() - #991
– Support for IPCProvider in FreeBSD (and more readme docs) - #1008
• Bugfixes
– Fix crash in time-based gas strategies with small number of transactions - #983
– Fx crash when passing multiple addresses to w3.eth.getLogs() - #1005
• Misc
– Disallow configuring filters with both manual and generated topic lists - #976
– Add support for the upcoming eth-abi v2, which does ABI string decoding differently - #974
– Add a lot more filter tests - #997
– Add more tests for filtering with None. Note that geth & parity differ here. - #985
– Follow-up on Parity bug that we reported upstream (parity#7816): they resolved in 1.10. We removed xfail
on that test. - #992
– Docs: add an example of interacting with an ERC20 contract - #995
– A couple doc typo fixes
∗ #1006
∗ #1010

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2.3.103 v4.5.0

Released July 30, 2018

• Features
– Accept addresses supplied in bytes format (which does not provide checksum validation)
– Improve estimation of gas prices
• Bugfixes
– Can now use a block number with getCode() when connected to EthereumTesterProvider (without
crashing)
• Misc
– Test Parity 1.11.7
– Parity integration tests upgrade to use sha256 instead of md5
– Fix some filter docs
– eth-account upgrade to v0.3.0
– eth-tester upgrade to v0.1.0-beta.29

2.3.104 v4.4.1

Released June 29, 2018

• Bugfixes
– eth-pm package was renamed (old one deleted) which broke the web3 release. eth-pm was removed from
the web3.py install until it’s stable.
• Misc
– IPCProvider now accepts a pathlib.Path argument for the IPC path
– Docs explaining the new custom autoproviders in web3

2.3.105 v4.4.0

Released June 21, 2018

• Features
– Add support for https in WEB3_PROVIDER_URI environment variable
– Can send websocket connection parameters in WebsocketProvider
– Two new auto-initialization options:
∗ from web3.auto.gethdev import w3
∗ from web3.auto.infura import w3 (After setting the INFURA_API_KEY environment variable)
– Alpha support for a new package management tool based on ethpm-spec, see Package Manager API
• Bugfixes
– Can now receive large responses in WebsocketProvider by specifying a large max_size in the websocket
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• Misc
– Websockets dependency upgraded to v5
– Raise deprecation warning on getTransactionFromBlock()
– Fix docs for waitForTransactionReceipt()
– Developer Dockerfile now installs testing dependencies

2.3.106 v4.3.0

Released June 6, 2018

• Features
– Support for the ABI types like: fixedMxN which is used by Vyper.
– In-flight transaction-signing middleware: Use local keys as if they were hosted keys using the new
sign_and_send_raw_middleware
– New getUncleByBlock() API
– New name getTransactionByBlock(), which replaces the deprecated getTransactionFromBlock()
– Add several new Parity trace functions
– New API to resolve ambiguous function calls, for example:
∗ Two functions with the same name that accept similar argument types, like myfunc(uint8) and
myfunc(int8), and you want to call contract.functions.myfunc(1).call()
∗ See how to use it at: Invoke Ambiguous Contract Functions Example
• Bugfixes
– Gas estimation doesn’t crash, when 0 blocks are available. (ie~ on the genesis block)
– Close out all HTTPProvider sessions, to squash warnings on exit
– Stop adding Contract address twice to the filter. It was making some nodes unhappy
• Misc
– Friendlier json encoding/decoding failure error messages
– Performance improvements, when the responses from the node are large (by reducing the number of times
we evaluate if the response is valid json)
– Parity CI test fixes (ugh, environment setup hell, thanks to the community for cleaning this up!)
– Don’t crash when requesting a transaction that was created with the parity bug (which allowed an unsigned
transaction to be included, so publicKey is None)
– Doc fixes: addresses must be checksummed (or ENS names on mainnet)
– Enable local integration testing of parity on non-Debian OS
– README:
∗ Testing setup for devs
∗ Change the build badge from Travis to Circle CI
– Cache the parity binary in Circle CI, to reduce the impact of their binary API going down
– Dropped the dot: py.test -> pytest

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2.3.107 v4.2.1

Released May 9, 2018

• Bugfixes
– When getting a transaction with data attached and trying to modify it (say, to increase the gas
price), the data was not being reattached in the new transaction.
– web3.personal.sendTransaction() was crashing when using a transaction generated with
buildTransaction()
• Misc
– Improved error message when connecting to a geth-style PoA network
– Improved error message when address is not checksummed
– Started in on support for fixedMxN ABI arguments
– Lots of documentation upgrades, including:
∗ Guide for understanding nodes/networks/connections
∗ Simplified Quickstart with notes for common issues
∗ A new Troubleshooting section
– Potential pypy performance improvements (use toolz instead of cytoolz)
– eth-tester upgraded to beta 24

2.3.108 v4.2.0

Released Apr 25, 2018

• Removed audit warning and opt-in requirement for w3.eth.account. See more in: Working with Local Private
Keys
• Added an API to look up contract functions: fn = contract.functions['function_name_here']
• Upgrade Whisper (shh) module to use v6 API
• Bugfix: set ‘to’ field of transaction to empty when using transaction = contract.constructor().
buildTransaction()
• You can now specify nonce in buildTransaction()
• Distinguish between chain id and network id – currently always return None for chainId
• Better error message when trying to use a contract function that has 0 or >1 matches
• Better error message when trying to install on a python version <3.5
• Installs pypiwin32 during pip install, for a better Windows experience
• Cleaned up a lot of test warnings by upgrading from deprecated APIs, especially from the deprecated contract.
deploy(txn_dict, args=contract_args) to the new contract.constructor(*contract_args).
transact(txn_dict)
• Documentation typo fixes
• Better template for Pull Requests

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2.3.109 v4.1.0

Released Apr 9, 2018

• New WebsocketProvider. If you’re looking for better performance than HTTP, check out websockets.
• New w3.eth.waitForTransactionReceipt()
• Added name collision detection to ConciseContract and ImplicitContract
• Bugfix to allow fromBlock set to 0 in createFilter, like contract.events.MyEvent.
createFilter(fromBlock=0, ...)
• Bugfix of ENS automatic connection
• eth-tester support for Byzantium
• New migration guide for v3 -> v4 upgrade
• Various documentation updates
• Pinned eth-account to older version

2.3.110 v4.0.0

Released Apr 2, 2018

• Marked beta.13 as stable
• Documentation tweaks

2.3.111 v4.0.0-beta.13

Released Mar 27, 2018

This is intended to be the final release before the stable v4 release.
• Add support for geth 1.8 (fixed error on getTransactionReceipt())
• You can now call a contract method at a specific block with the block_identifier keyword argument, see:
call()
• In preparation for stable release, disable w3.eth.account by default, until a third-party audit is complete &
resolved.
• New API for contract deployment, which enables gas estimation, local signing, etc. See constructor().
• Find contract events with contract.events.$my_event.createFilter()
• Support auto-complete for contract methods.
• Upgrade most dependencies to stable
– eth-abi
– eth-utils
– hexbytes
– not included: eth-tester and eth-account
• Switch the default EthereumTesterProvider backend from eth-testrpc to eth-tester: web3.providers.
eth_tester.EthereumTesterProvider
• A lot of documentation improvements

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• Test node integrations over a variety of providers

• geth 1.8 test suite

2.3.112 v4.0.0-beta.12

A little hiccup on release. Skipped.

2.3.113 v4.0.0-beta.11

Released Feb 28, 2018

• New methods to modify or replace pending transactions
• A compatibility option for connecting to geth --dev – see Proof of Authority
• A new web3.net.chainId
• Create a filter object from an existing filter ID.
• eth-utils v1.0.1 (stable) compatibility

2.3.114 v4.0.0-beta.10

Released Feb 21, 2018

• bugfix: Compatibility with eth-utils v1-beta2 (the incompatibility was causing fresh web3.py installs to fail)
• bugfix: crash when sending the output of contract.functions.myFunction().buildTransaction() to
sendTransaction(). Now, having a chainID key does not crash sendTransaction.
• bugfix: a TypeError when estimating gas like: contract.functions.myFunction().estimateGas() is
fixed
• Added parity integration tests to the continuous integration suite!
• Some py3 and docs cleanup

2.3.115 v4.0.0-beta.9

Released Feb 8, 2018

• Access event log parameters as attributes
• Support for specifying nonce in eth-tester
• Bugfix dependency conflicts between eth-utils, eth-abi, and eth-tester
• Clearer error message when invalid keywords provided to contract constructor function
• New docs for working with private keys + set up doctests
• First parity integration tests
• replace internal implementation of w3.eth.account with eth_account.account.Account

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2.3.116 v4.0.0-beta.8

Released Feb 7, 2018, then recalled. It added 32MB of test data to git history, so the tag was deleted, as well as the
corresponding release. (Although the release would not have contained that test data)

2.3.117 v4.0.0-beta.7

Released Jan 29, 2018

• Support for web3.eth.Eth.getLogs() in eth-tester with py-evm
• Process transaction receipts with Event ABI, using Contract.events.myEvent(*args,
**kwargs).processReceipt(transaction_receipt) see Event Log Object for the new type.
• Add timeout parameter to web3.providers.ipc.IPCProvider
• bugfix: make sure idna package is always installed
• Replace ethtestrpc with py-evm, in all tests
• Dockerfile fixup
• Test refactoring & cleanup
• Reduced warnings during tests

2.3.118 v4.0.0-beta.6

Released Jan 18, 2018

• New contract function call API: my_contract.functions.my_func().call() is preferred over the now deprecated
my_contract.call().my_func() API.
• A new, sophisticated gas estimation algorithm, based on the https://ethgasstation.info approach. You must opt-in
to the new approach, because it’s quite slow. We recommend using the new caching middleware. See web3.
gas_strategies.time_based.construct_time_based_gas_price_strategy()
• New caching middleware that can cache based on time, block, or indefinitely.
• Automatically retry JSON-RPC requests over HTTP, a few times.
• ConciseContract now has the address directly
• Many eth-tester fixes. web3.providers.eth_tester.main.EthereumTesterProvider is now a legitimate
alternative to web3.providers.tester.EthereumTesterProvider.
• ethtest-rpc removed from testing. Tests use eth-tester only, on pyethereum. Soon it will be eth-tester with py-evm.
• Bumped several dependencies, like eth-tester
• Documentation updates

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2.3.119 v4.0.0-beta.5

Released Dec 28, 2017

• Improvements to working with eth-tester, using EthereumTesterProvider:
– Bugfix the key names in event logging
– Add support for sendRawTransaction()
• IPCProvider now automatically retries on a broken connection, like when you restart your node
• New gas price engine API, laying groundwork for more advanced gas pricing strategies

2.3.120 v4.0.0-beta.4

Released Dec 7, 2017

• New buildTransaction() method to prepare contract transactions, offline
• New automatic provider detection, for w3 = Web3() initialization
• Set environment variable WEB3_PROVIDER_URI to suggest a provider for automatic detection
• New API to set providers like: w3.providers = [IPCProvider()]
• Crashfix: web3.eth.Eth.filter() when retrieving logs with the argument ‘latest’
• Bump eth-tester to v0.1.0-beta.5, with bugfix for filtering by topic
• Removed GPL lib pylru, now believed to be in full MIT license compliance.

2.3.121 v4.0.0-beta.3

Released Dec 1, 2017

• Fix encoding of ABI types: bytes[] and string[]
• Windows connection error bugfix
• Bugfix message signatures that were broken ~1% of the time (zero-pad r and s)
• Autoinit web3 now produces None instead of raising an exception on from web3.auto import w3
• Clearer errors on formatting failure (includes field name that failed)
• Python modernization, removing Py2 compatibility cruft
• Update dependencies with changed names, now:
– eth-abi
– eth-keyfile
– eth-keys
– eth-tester
– eth-utils
• Faster Travis CI builds, with cached geth binary

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2.3.122 v4.0.0-beta.2

Released Nov 22, 2017

Bug Fixes:
• sendRawTransaction() accepts raw bytes
• contract() accepts an ENS name as contract address
• signTransaction() returns the expected hash (after signing the transaction)
• Account methods can all be called statically, like: Account.sign(...)
• getTransactionReceipt() returns the status field as an int
• Web3.soliditySha3() looks up ENS names if they are supplied with an “address” ABI
• If running multiple threads with the same w3 instance, ValueError: Recursively called ... is no longer
raised
Plus, various python modernization code cleanups, and testing against geth 1.7.2.

2.3.123 v4.0.0-beta.1

• Python 3 is now required

• ENS names can be used anywhere that a hex address can
• Sign transactions and messages with local private keys
• New filter mechanism: get_all_entries() and get_new_entries()
• Quick automatic initialization with from web3.auto import w3
• All addresses must be supplied with an EIP-55 checksum
• All addresses are returned with a checksum
• Renamed Web3.toDecimal() to toInt(), see: Encoding and Decoding Helpers
• All filter calls are synchronous, gevent integration dropped
• Contract eventFilter() has replaced both Contract.on() and Contract.pastEvents()
• Contract arguments of bytes ABI type now accept hex strings.
• Contract arguments of string ABI type now accept python str.
• Contract return values of string ABI type now return python str.
• Many methods now return a bytes-like object where they used to return a hex string, like in Web3.sha3()
• IPC connection left open and reused, rather than opened and closed on each call
• A number of deprecated methods from v3 were removed

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2.3.124 3.16.1

• Addition of ethereum-tester as a dependency

2.3.125 3.16.0

• Addition of named middlewares for easier manipulation of middleware stack.

• Provider middlewares can no longer be modified during runtime.
• Experimental custom ABI normalization API for Contract objects.

2.3.126 3.15.0

• Change docs to use RTD theme

• Experimental new EthereumTesterProvider for the ethereum-tester library.
• Bugfix for function type abi encoding via ethereum-abi-utils upgrade to v0.4.1
• Bugfix for Web3.toHex to conform to RPC spec.

2.3.127 3.14.2

• Fix PyPi readme text.

2.3.128 3.14.1

• Fix PyPi readme text.

2.3.129 3.14.0

• New stalecheck_middleware
• Improvements to Web3.toHex and Web3.toText.
• Improvements to Web3.sha3 signature.
• Bugfixes for Web3.eth.sign api

2.3.130 3.13.5

• Add experimental fixture_middleware

• Various bugfixes introduced in middleware API introduction and migration to formatter middleware.

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2.3.131 3.13.4

• Bugfix for formatter handling of contract creation transaction.

2.3.132 3.13.3

• Improved testing infrastructure.

2.3.133 3.13.2

• Bugfix for retrieving filter changes for both new block filters and pending transaction filters.

2.3.134 3.13.1

• Fix mispelled attrdict_middleware (was spelled attrdict_middlware).

2.3.135 3.13.0

• New Middleware API

• Support for multiple providers
• New web3.soliditySha3
• Remove multiple functions that were never implemented from the original web3.
• Deprecated web3.currentProvider accessor. Use web3.provider now instead.
• Deprecated password prompt within web3.personal.newAccount.

2.3.136 3.12.0

• Bugfix for abi filtering to correctly handle constructor and fallback type abi entries.

2.3.137 3.11.0

• All web3 apis which accept address parameters now enforce checksums if the address looks like it is check-
summed.
• Improvements to error messaging with when calling a contract on a node that may not be fully synced
• Bugfix for web3.eth.syncing to correctly handle False

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2.3.138 3.10.0

• Web3 now returns web3.utils.datastructures.AttributeDict in places where it previously returned a

normal dict.
• web3.eth.contract now performs validation on the address parameter.
• Added web3.eth.getWork API

2.3.139 3.9.0

• Add validation for the abi parameter of eth

• Contract return values of bytes, bytesXX and string are no longer converted to text types and will be returned
in their raw byte-string format.

2.3.140 3.8.1

• Bugfix for eth_sign double hashing input.

• Removed deprecated DelegatedSigningManager
• Removed deprecate PrivateKeySigningManager

2.3.141 3.8.0

• Update pyrlp dependency to >=0.4.7

• Update eth-testrpc dependency to >=1.2.0
• Deprecate DelegatedSigningManager
• Deprecate PrivateKeySigningManager

2.3.142 3.7.1

• upstream version bump for bugfix in eth-abi-utils

2.3.143 3.7.0

• deprecate eth.defaultAccount defaulting to the coinbase account.

2.3.144 3.6.2

• Fix error message from contract factory creation.

• Use ethereum-utils for utility functions.

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2.3.145 3.6.1

• Upgrade ethereum-abi-utils dependency for upstream bugfix.

2.3.146 3.6.0

• Deprecate Contract.code: replaced by Contract.bytecode

• Deprecate Contract.code_runtime: replaced by Contract.bytecode_runtime
• Deprecate abi, code, code_runtime and source as arguments for the Contract object.
• Deprecate source as a property of the Contract object
• Add Contract.factory() API.
• Deprecate the construct_contract_factory helper function.

2.3.147 3.5.3

• Bugfix for how requests library is used. Now reuses session.

2.3.148 3.5.2

• Bugfix for construction of request_kwargs within HTTPProvider

2.3.149 3.5.1

• Allow HTTPProvider to be imported from web3 module.

• make HTTPProvider accessible as a property of web3 instances.

2.3.150 3.5.0

• Deprecate web3.providers.rpc.RPCProvider
• Deprecate web3.providers.rpc.KeepAliveRPCProvider
• Add new web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider
• Remove hard dependency on gevent.

2.3.151 3.4.4

• Bugfix for web3.eth.getTransaction when the hash is unknown.

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2.3.152 3.4.3

• Bugfix for event log data decoding to properly handle dynamic sized values.
• New web3.tester module to access extra RPC functionality from eth-testrpc

2.3.153 3.4.2

• Fix package so that eth-testrpc is not required.

2.3.154 3.4.1

• Force gevent<1.2.0 until this issue is fixed: https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/916

2.3.155 3.4.0

• Bugfix for contract instances to respect web3.eth.defaultAccount

• Better error reporting when ABI decoding fails for contract method response.

2.3.156 3.3.0

• New EthereumTesterProvider now available. Faster test runs than TestRPCProvider

• Updated underlying eth-testrpc requirement.

2.3.157 3.2.0

• web3.shh is now implemented.

• Introduced KeepAliveRPCProvider to correctly recycle HTTP connections and use HTTP keep alive

2.3.158 3.1.1

• Bugfix for contract transaction sending not respecting the web3.eth.defaultAccount configuration.

2.3.159 3.1.0

• New DelegatedSigningManager and PrivateKeySigningManager classes.

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2.3.160 3.0.2

• Bugfix or IPCProvider not handling large JSON responses well.

2.3.161 3.0.1

• Better RPC compliance to be compatable with the Parity JSON-RPC server.

2.3.162 3.0.0

• Filter objects now support controlling the interval through which they poll using the poll_interval property

2.3.163 2.9.0

• Bugfix generation of event topics.

• Web3.Iban now allows access to Iban address tools.

2.3.164 2.8.1

• Bugfix for geth.ipc path on linux systems.

2.3.165 2.8.0

• Changes to the Contract API:

– Contract.deploy() parameter arguments renamed to args
– Contract.deploy() now takes args and kwargs parameters to allow constructing with keyword ar-
guments or positional arguments.
– Contract.pastEvents now allows you to specify a fromBlock or ``toBlock. Previously these
were forced to be 'earliest' and web3.eth.blockNumber respectively.
– Contract.call, Contract.transact and Contract.estimateGas are now callable as class
methods as well as instance methods. When called this way, an address must be provided with the
transaction parameter.
– Contract.call, Contract.transact and Contract.estimateGas now allow specifying an al-
ternate address for the transaction.
• RPCProvider now supports the following constructor arguments.
– ssl for enabling SSL
– connection_timeout and network_timeout for controlling the timeouts for requests.

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2.3.166 2.7.1

• Bugfix: Fix KeyError in merge_args_and_kwargs helper fn.

2.3.167 2.7.0

• Bugfix for usage of block identifiers ‘latest’, ‘earliest’, ‘pending’

• Sphinx documentation
• Non-data transactions now default to 90000 gas.
• Web3 object now has helpers set as static methods rather than being set at initialization.
• RPCProvider now takes a path parameter to allow configuration for requests to go to paths other than /.

2.3.168 2.6.0

• TestRPCProvider no longer dumps logging output to stdout and stderr.

• Bugfix for return types of address[]
• Bugfix for event data types of address

2.3.169 2.5.0

• All transactions which contain a data element will now have their gas automatically estimated with 100k addi-
tional buffer. This was previously only true with transactions initiated from a Contract object.

2.3.170 2.4.0

• Contract functions can now be called using keyword arguments.

2.3.171 2.3.0

• Upstream fixes for filters

• Filter APIs on and pastEvents now callable as both instance and class methods.

2.3.172 2.2.0

• The filters that come back from the contract on and pastEvents methods now call their callbacks with the same
data format as web3.js.

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2.3.173 2.1.1

• Cast RPCProvider port to an integer.

2.3.174 2.1.0

• Remove all monkeypatching

2.3.175 2.0.0

• Pull in downstream updates to proper gevent usage.

• Fix eth_sign
• Bugfix with contract operations mutating the transaction object that is passed in.
• More explicit linting ignore statements.

2.3.176 1.9.0

• BugFix: fix for python3 only json.JSONDecodeError handling.

2.3.177 1.8.0

• BugFix: RPCProvider not sending a content-type header

• Bugfix: web3.toWei now returns an integer instead of a decimal.Decimal

2.3.178 1.7.1

• TestRPCProvider can now be imported directly from web3

2.3.179 1.7.0

• Add eth.admin interface.

• Bugfix: Format the return value of web3.eth.syncing
• Bugfix: IPCProvider socket interactions are now more robust.

2.3.180 1.6.0

• Downstream package upgrades for eth-testrpc and ethereum-tester-client to handle configuration of

the Homestead and DAO fork block numbers.

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2.3.181 1.5.0

• Rename web3.contract._Contract to web3.contract.Contract to expose it for static analysis and auto

completion tools
• Allow passing string parameters to functions
• Automatically compute gas requirements for contract deployment and
• transactions.
• Contract Filters
• Block, Transaction, and Log filters
• web3.eth.txpool interface
• web3.eth.mining interface
• Fixes for encoding.

2.3.182 1.4.0

• Bugfix to allow address types in constructor arguments.

2.3.183 1.3.0

• Partial implementation of the web3.eth.contract interface.

2.3.184 1.2.0

• Restructure project modules to be more flat

• Add ability to run test suite without the slow tests.
• Breakup encoding utils into smaller modules.
• Basic pep8 formatting.
• Apply python naming conventions to internal APIs
• Lots of minor bugfixes.
• Removal of dead code left behing from 1.0.0 refactor.
• Removal of web3/solidity module.

2.3.185 1.1.0

• Add missing isConnected() method.

• Add test coverage for setProvider()

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2.3.186 1.0.1

• Specify missing pyrlp and gevent dependencies

2.3.187 1.0.0

• Massive refactor to the majority of the app.

2.3.188 0.1.0

• Initial release

2.4 Your Ethereum Node

2.4.1 Why do I need to connect to a node?

The Ethereum protocol defines a way for people to interact with smart contracts and each other over a network. In
order to have up-to-date information about the status of contracts, balances, and new transactions, the protocol requires
a connection to nodes on the network. These nodes are constantly sharing new data with each other.
web3.py is a python library for connecting to these nodes. It does not run its own node internally.

2.4.2 How do I choose which node to use?

Due to the nature of Ethereum, this is largely a question of personal preference, but it has significant ramifications on
security and usability. Further, node software is evolving quickly, so please do your own research about the current
options.
One of the key decisions is whether to use a local node or a hosted node. A quick summary is at Local vs Hosted Nodes.
A local node requires less trust than a hosted one. A malicious hosted node can give you incorrect information, log
your sent transactions with your IP address, or simply go offline. Incorrect information can cause all kinds of problems,
including loss of assets.
On the other hand, with a local node your machine is individually verifying all the transactions on the network, and
providing you with the latest state. Unfortunately, this means using up a significant amount of disk space, and sometimes
notable bandwidth and computation. Additionally, there is a big up-front time cost for downloading the full blockchain
history.
If you want to have your node manage keys for you (a popular option), you must use a local node. Note that even if you
run a node on your own machine, you are still trusting the node software with any accounts you create on the node.
You can find a list of node software at ethereum.org.
Some people decide that the time it takes to sync a local node from scratch is too high, especially if they are just
exploring Ethereum for the first time. One way to work around this issue is to use a hosted node.
Hosted node options can also be found at ethereum.org. You can connect to a hosted node as if it were a local node,
with a few caveats. It cannot (and should not) host private keys for you, meaning that some common methods like
w3.eth.send_transaction() are not directly available. To send transactions to a hosted node, read about Working
with Local Private Keys.
Once you decide what node option you want, you need to choose which network to connect to. Typically, you are
choosing between the main network and one of the available test networks. See Which network should I connect to?

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Can I use MetaMask as a node?

MetaMask is not a node. It is an interface for interacting with a node. Roughly, it’s what you get if you turn web3.py
into a browser extension.
By default, MetaMask connects to an Infura node. You can also set up MetaMask to use a node that you run locally.
If you are trying to use accounts that were already created in MetaMask, see Why isn’t my web3 instance connecting to
the network?

2.4.3 Which network should I connect to?

Once you have answered How do I choose which node to use? you have to pick which network to connect to. This is
easy for some scenarios: if you have ether and you want to spend it, or you want to interact with any production smart
contracts, then you connect to the main Ethereum network.
If you want to test these things without using real ether, though, then you need to connect to a test network. There are
several test networks to choose from; view the list on ethereum.org.
Each network has its own version of Ether. Main network ether must be purchased, naturally, but test network ether is
usually available for free. See How do I get ether for my test network?
Once you have decided which network to connect to, and set up your node for that network, you need to decide how to
connect to it. There are a handful of options in most nodes. See Choosing How to Connect to Your Node.

2.5 Providers

The provider is how web3 talks to the blockchain. Providers take JSON-RPC requests and return the response. This is
normally done by submitting the request to an HTTP or IPC socket based server.

Note: web3.py supports one provider per instance. If you have an advanced use case that requires multiple providers,
create and configure a new web3 instance per connection.

If you are already happily connected to your Ethereum node, then you can skip the rest of the Providers section.

2.5.1 Choosing How to Connect to Your Node

Most nodes have a variety of ways to connect to them. If you have not decided what kind of node to use, head on over
to How do I choose which node to use?
The most common ways to connect to your node are:
1. IPC (uses local filesystem: fastest and most secure)
2. Websockets (works remotely, faster than HTTP)
3. HTTP (more nodes support it)
If you’re not sure how to decide, choose this way:
• If you have the option of running web3.py on the same machine as the node, choose IPC.
• If you must connect to a node on a different computer, use Websockets.
• If your node does not support Websockets, use HTTP.

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Most nodes have a way of “turning off” connection options. We recommend turning off all connection options that you
are not using. This provides a safer setup: it reduces the number of ways that malicious hackers can try to steal your
ether.
Once you have decided how to connect, you specify the details using a Provider. Providers are web3.py classes that are
configured for the kind of connection you want.
See:
• IPCProvider
• WebsocketProvider
• WebsocketProviderV2
• HTTPProvider
• AsyncHTTPProvider
Once you have configured your provider, for example:

from web3 import Web3

my_provider = Web3.IPCProvider('/my/node/ipc/path')

Then you are ready to initialize your Web3 instance, like so:

w3 = Web3(my_provider)

Finally, you are ready to get started with web3.py.

Provider via Environment Variable

Alternatively, you can set the environment variable WEB3_PROVIDER_URI before starting your script, and web3 will
look for that provider first.
Valid formats for this environment variable are:
• file:///path/to/node/rpc-json/file.ipc
• http://192.168.1.2:8545
• https://node.ontheweb.com
• ws://127.0.0.1:8546

2.5.2 Auto-initialization Provider Shortcuts

Geth dev Proof of Authority

To connect to a geth --dev Proof of Authority instance with defaults:

>>> from web3.auto.gethdev import w3

# confirm that the connection succeeded

>>> w3.is_connected()
True

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2.5.3 Built In Providers

Web3 ships with the following providers which are appropriate for connecting to local and remote JSON-RPC servers.

HTTPProvider

class web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider(endpoint_uri[, request_kwargs, session ])

This provider handles interactions with an HTTP or HTTPS based JSON-RPC server.
• endpoint_uri should be the full URI to the RPC endpoint such as 'https://localhost:8545'. For
RPC servers behind HTTP connections running on port 80 and HTTPS connections running on port 443
the port can be omitted from the URI.
• request_kwargs should be a dictionary of keyword arguments which will be passed onto each http/https
POST request made to your node.
• session allows you to pass a requests.Session object initialized as desired.

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("http://127.0.0.1:8545"))

Note that you should create only one HTTPProvider with the same provider URL per python process, as
the HTTPProvider recycles underlying TCP/IP network connections, for better performance. Multiple HTTP-
Providers with different URLs will work as expected.
Under the hood, the HTTPProvider uses the python requests library for making requests. If you would like
to modify how requests are made, you can use the request_kwargs to do so. A common use case for this is
increasing the timeout for each request.

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("http://127.0.0.1:8545", request_kwargs={'timeout':␣
˓→60}))

To tune the connection pool size, you can pass your own requests.Session.

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(pool_connections=20, pool_maxsize=20)
>>> session = requests.Session()
>>> session.mount('http://', adapter)
>>> session.mount('https://', adapter)
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("http://127.0.0.1:8545", session=session))

IPCProvider

class web3.providers.ipc.IPCProvider(ipc_path=None, testnet=False, timeout=10)

This provider handles interaction with an IPC Socket based JSON-RPC server.
• ipc_path is the filesystem path to the IPC socket:

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.IPCProvider("~/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc"))

If no ipc_path is specified, it will use a default depending on your operating system.

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• On Windows: \\.\pipe\geth.ipc

WebsocketProvider

Note: WebsocketProviderV2 is currently in beta and our goal is to fully replace WebsocketProvider with
WebsocketProviderV2 in the next major release of web3.py.

class web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketProvider(endpoint_uri[, websocket_timeout,

websocket_kwargs ])
This provider handles interactions with an WS or WSS based JSON-RPC server.
• endpoint_uri should be the full URI to the RPC endpoint such as 'ws://localhost:8546'.
• websocket_timeout is the timeout in seconds, used when receiving or sending data over the connection.
Defaults to 10.
• websocket_kwargs this should be a dictionary of keyword arguments which will be passed onto the
ws/wss websocket connection.

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.WebsocketProvider("ws://127.0.0.1:8546"))

Under the hood, the WebsocketProvider uses the python websockets library for making requests. If you would
like to modify how requests are made, you can use the websocket_kwargs to do so. See the websockets docu-
mentation for available arguments.
Unlike HTTP connections, the timeout for WS connections is controlled by a separate websocket_timeout
argument, as shown below.

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.WebsocketProvider("ws://127.0.0.1:8546", websocket_timeout=60))

Persistent Connection Providers

class web3.providers.persistent.PersistentConnectionProvider(endpoint_uri: str, request_timeout:

float = 50.0,
subscription_response_queue_size:
int = 500,
request_information_cache_size: int
= 500)
This is a base provider class, currently inherited by the WebsocketProviderV2. It handles interactions with a
persistent connection to a JSON-RPC server. Among its configuration, it houses all of the RequestProcessor
logic for handling the asynchronous sending and receiving of requests and responses. See the Request Processing
for Persistent Connection Providers section for more details on the internals of persistent connection providers.
• request_timeout is the timeout in seconds, used when sending data over the connection and waiting for
a response to be received from the listener task. Defaults to 50.0.
• subscription_response_queue_size is the size of the queue used to store subscription responses,
defaults to 500. While messages are being consumed, this queue should never fill up as it is a transient
queue and meant to handle asynchronous receiving and processing of responses. When in sync with the
websocket stream, this queue should only ever store 1 to a few messages at a time.

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• request_information_cache_size is the size of the cache used to store request information so that
when a response is received, the provider knows how to process it based on the original request. Defaults
to 500.

WebsocketProviderV2 (beta)

Warning: This provider is still in beta. However, it is being actively developed and supported and is expected to
be stable in the next major version of web3.py (v7).

class web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketProviderV2(endpoint_uri: str, websocket_kwargs: Dict[str,

Any] = {}, silence_listener_task_exceptions: bool
= False)
This provider handles interactions with an WS or WSS based JSON-RPC server.
• endpoint_uri should be the full URI to the RPC endpoint such as 'ws://localhost:8546'.
• websocket_kwargs this should be a dictionary of keyword arguments which will be passed onto the
ws/wss websocket connection.
• silence_listener_task_exceptions is a boolean that determines whether exceptions raised by the
listener task are silenced. Defaults to False, raising any exceptions that occur in the listener task.
This provider inherits from the PersistentConnectionProvider class. Refer to the
PersistentConnectionProvider documentation for details on additional configuration options avail-
able for this provider.
Under the hood, the WebsocketProviderV2 uses the python websockets library for making requests. If you
would like to modify how requests are made, you can use the websocket_kwargs to do so. See the websockets
documentation for available arguments.

Usage

The AsyncWeb3 class may be used as a context manager, utilizing the async with syntax, when connecting via
persistent_websocket() using the WebsocketProviderV2. This will automatically close the connection when
the context manager exits and is the recommended way to initiate a persistent connection to the websocket provider.
A similar example, using the websockets connection as an asynchronous context manager, can be found in the web-
sockets connection docs.

>>> import asyncio

>>> from web3 import AsyncWeb3
>>> from web3.providers import WebsocketProviderV2

>>> LOG = True # toggle debug logging

>>> if LOG:
... import logging
... logger = logging.getLogger("web3.providers.WebsocketProviderV2")
... logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
... logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())

>>> async def ws_v2_subscription_context_manager_example():

... async with AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(
... WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.1:8546")
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... ) as w3:
... # subscribe to new block headers
... subscription_id = await w3.eth.subscribe("newHeads")
...
... async for response in w3.ws.process_subscriptions():
... print(f"{response}\n")
... # handle responses here
...
... if some_condition:
... # unsubscribe from new block headers and break out of
... # iterator
... await w3.eth.unsubscribe(subscription_id)
... break
...
... # still an open connection, make any other requests and get
... # responses via send / receive
... latest_block = await w3.eth.get_block("latest")
... print(f"Latest block: {latest_block}")
...
... # the connection closes automatically when exiting the context
... # manager (the `async with` block)

>>> asyncio.run(ws_v2_subscription_context_manager_example())

The AsyncWeb3 class may also be used as an asynchronous iterator, utilizing the async for syntax, when connecting
via persistent_websocket() using the WebsocketProviderV2. This may be used to set up an indefinite websocket
connection and reconnect automatically if the connection is lost. A similar example, using the websockets connection
as an asynchronous iterator, can be found in the websockets connection docs.

>>> import asyncio

>>> from web3 import AsyncWeb3
>>> from web3.providers import WebsocketProviderV2
>>> import websockets

>>> async def ws_v2_subscription_iterator_example():

... async for w3 in AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(
... WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.1:8546")
... ):
... try:
... ...
... except websockets.ConnectionClosed:
... continue

# run the example

>>> asyncio.run(ws_v2_subscription_iterator_example())

If neither of the two init patterns above work for your application, the __await__() method is defined on the
persistent_websocket() connection in a manner that awaits connecting to the websocket. You may also choose to
instantiate and connect via the provider in separate lines. Both of these examples are shown below.

>>> async def ws_v2_alternate_init_example_1():

... # awaiting the persistent connection itself will connect to the websocket
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... w3 = await AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.
˓→1:8546"))

...
... # some code here
...
... # manual cleanup
... await w3.provider.disconnect()

# run the example

>>> asyncio.run(ws_v2_alternate_init_example_1)

>>> async def ws_v2_alternate_init_example_2():

... # instantiation and connection via the provider as separate lines
... w3 = AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.1:8546"))
... await w3.provider.connect()
...
... # some code here
...
... # manual cleanup
... await w3.provider.disconnect()

# run the example

>>> asyncio.run(ws_v2_alternate_init_example_2)

The WebsocketProviderV2 class uses the RequestProcessor class under the hood to sync up the receiving
of responses and response processing for one-to-one and one-to-many request-to-response requests. Refer to the
RequestProcessor documentation for details.

_PersistentConnectionWeb3 via AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket()

When an AsyncWeb3 class is connected to a persistent websocket connection, via the persistent_websocket()
method, it becomes an instance of the _PersistentConnectionWeb3 class. This class has a few additional methods
and attributes that are not available on the AsyncWeb3 class.
class web3.main._PersistentConnectionWeb3

ws
The public API for interacting with the websocket connection is available via the ws attribute of the
_PersistentConnectionWeb3 class. This attribute is an instance of the WebsocketConnection class
and is the main interface for interacting with the websocket connection.

Interacting with the Websocket Connection

class web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection
This class handles interactions with a websocket connection. It is available via the ws attribute of the
_PersistentConnectionWeb3 class. The WebsocketConnection class has the following methods and at-
tributes:
subscriptions
This attribute returns the current active subscriptions as a dict mapping the subscription id to a dict of
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process_subscriptions()
This method is available for listening to websocket subscriptions indefinitely. It is an asynchronous iterator
that yields strictly one-to-many (e.g. eth_subscription responses) request-to-response messages from
the websocket connection. To receive responses for one-to-one request-to-response calls, use the standard
API for making requests via the appropriate module (e.g. block_num = await w3.eth.block_number)
The responses from this method are formatted by web3.py formatters and run through the middlewares that
were present at the time of subscription. An example of its use can be seen above in the Usage section.
recv()
The recv() method can be used to receive the next message from the websocket. The response from this
method is formatted by web3.py formatters and run through the middlewares before being returned. This is
not the recommended way to receive a message as the process_subscriptions() method is available for
listening to websocket subscriptions and the standard API for making requests via the appropriate module
(e.g. block_num = await w3.eth.block_number) is available for receiving responses for one-to-one
request-to-response calls.
send(method: RPCEndpoint, params: Sequence[Any])
This method is available strictly for sending raw requests to the websocket, if desired. It is not recommended
to use this method directly, as the responses will not be formatted by web3.py formatters or run through the
middlewares. Instead, use the methods available on the respective web3 module. For example, use w3.eth.
get_block("latest") instead of w3.ws.send("eth_getBlockByNumber", ["latest", True]).

AutoProvider

AutoProvider is the default used when initializing web3.Web3 without any providers. There’s rarely a reason to use
it explicitly.

AsyncHTTPProvider

class web3.providers.async_rpc.AsyncHTTPProvider(endpoint_uri[, request_kwargs ])

This provider handles interactions with an HTTP or HTTPS based JSON-RPC server asynchronously.
• endpoint_uri should be the full URI to the RPC endpoint such as 'https://localhost:8545'. For
RPC servers behind HTTP connections running on port 80 and HTTPS connections running on port 443
the port can be omitted from the URI.
• request_kwargs should be a dictionary of keyword arguments which will be passed onto each http/https
POST request made to your node.
• the cache_async_session() method allows you to use your own aiohttp.ClientSession object.
This is an async method and not part of the constructor

>>> from aiohttp import ClientSession

>>> from web3 import AsyncWeb3, AsyncHTTPProvider

>>> w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncHTTPProvider(endpoint_uri))

>>> # If you want to pass in your own session:

>>> custom_session = ClientSession()
>>> await w3.provider.cache_async_session(custom_session) # This method is an async␣
˓→method so it needs to be handled accordingly

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• Available Middleware - These middlewares have async versions available:

– Attribute Dict Middleware
– Buffered Gas Estimate Middleware
– Gas Price Strategy Middleware
– Geth POA Middleware
– Local Filter Middleware
– Simple Cache Middleware
– Stalecheck Middleware
– Validation Middleware
– Name to Address Middleware

EthereumTesterProvider

Warning: Experimental: This provider is experimental. There are still significant gaps in functionality. However
it is being actively developed and supported.

class web3.providers.eth_tester.EthereumTesterProvider(eth_tester=None)
This provider integrates with the eth-tester library. The eth_tester constructor argument should be an in-
stance of the EthereumTester or a subclass of BaseChainBackend class provided by the eth-tester library.
If you would like a custom eth-tester instance to test with, see the eth-tester library documentation for details.

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())

Note: To install the needed dependencies to use EthereumTesterProvider, you can install the pip extras package that
has the correct interoperable versions of the eth-tester and py-evm dependencies needed to do testing: e.g. pip
install web3[tester]

2.6 Working with Local Private Keys

2.6.1 Local vs Hosted Nodes

Hosted Node
A hosted node is controlled by someone else. When you connect to Infura, you are connected to a hosted node.
See ethereumnodes.com for the list of free and commercial node providers.
Local Node
A local node is started and controlled by you on your computer. For several reasons (e.g., privacy, security), this
is the recommended path, but it requires more resources and work to set up and maintain.

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2.6.2 Local vs Hosted Keys

An Ethereum private key is a 256-bit (32 bytes) random integer. For each private key, you get one Ethereum address,
also known as an Externally Owned Account (EOA).
In Python, the private key is expressed as a 32-byte long Python bytes object. When a private key is presented to users
in a hexadecimal format, it may or may not contain a starting 0x hexadecimal prefix.
Local Private Key
A local private key is a locally stored secret you import to your Python application. Please read below how you
can create and import a local private key and use it to sign transactions.
Hosted Private Key
This is a legacy way to use accounts when working with unit test backends like web3.providers.eth_tester.
main.EthereumTesterProvider or Anvil. Calling web3.eth.accounts gives you a predefined list of ac-
counts that have been funded with test ETH. You can use any of these accounts with use send_transaction()
without further configuration.
In the past, around 2015, this was also a way to use private keys in a locally hosted node, but this practice is now
discouraged.

Note: Methods like web3.eth.send_transaction` do not work with modern node providers, because they relied on a
node state and all modern nodes are stateless. You must always use local private keys when working with nodes hosted
by someone else.

2.6.3 Some Common Uses for Local Private Keys

A very common reason to work with local private keys is to interact with a hosted node.
Some common things you might want to do with a Local Private Key are:
• Sign a Transaction
• Sign a Contract Transaction
• Sign a Message
• Verify a Message
Using private keys usually involves w3.eth.account in one way or another. Read on for more, or see a full list of
things you can do in the docs for eth_account.Account.

2.6.4 Creating a Private Key

Each Ethereum address has a matching private key. To create a new Ethereum account you can just generate a random
number that acts as a private key.
• A private key is just a random unguessable, or cryptographically safe, 256-bit integer number
• A valid private key is > 0 and < max private key value (a number above the elliptic curve order FFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFE BAAEDCE6 AF48A03B BFD25E8C D0364141)
• Private keys do not have checksums.
To create a private key using web3.py and command line you can do:

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python -c "from web3 import Web3; w3 = Web3(); acc = w3.eth.account.create(); print(f

˓→'private key={w3.to_hex(acc.key)}, account={acc.address}')"

Which outputs a new private key and an account pair:

private key=0x480c4aec9fa..., account=0x9202a9d5D2d129CB400a40e00aC822a53ED81167

• Never store private key with your source. Use environment variables to store the key. Read more below.
• You can also import the raw hex private key to MetaMask and any other wallet - the private key can be shared
between your Python code and any number of wallets.

2.6.5 Funding a New Account

If you create a private key, it comes with its own Ethereum address. By default, the balance of this address is zero.
Before you can send any transactions with your account, you need to top up.
• For a local test environment, any environment is bootstrapped with accounts that have ETH on them. Move ETH
from default accounts to your newly created account.
• For public mainnet, you need to buy ETH in a cryptocurrency exchange
• For a testnet, you need to [use a testnet faucet](https://faucet.paradigm.xyz/)

2.6.6 Reading a Private Key from an Environment Variable

In this example we pass the private key to our Python application in an environment variable. This private key is then
added to the transaction signing keychain with Signing middleware.
If unfamiliar, note that you can export your private keys from Metamask and other wallets.

Warning:
• Never share your private keys.
• Never put your private keys in source code.
• Never commit private keys to a Git repository.

Example account_test_script.py

import os
from eth_account import Account
from eth_account.signers.local import LocalAccount
from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider
from web3.middleware import construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware

w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())

private_key = os.environ.get("PRIVATE_KEY")
assert private_key is not None, "You must set PRIVATE_KEY environment variable"
assert private_key.startswith("0x"), "Private key must start with 0x hex prefix"

account: LocalAccount = Account.from_key(private_key)

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w3.middleware_onion.add(construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(account))

print(f"Your hot wallet address is {account.address}")

# Now you can use web3.eth.send_transaction(), Contract.functions.xxx.transact()␣

˓→functions

# with your local private key through middleware and you no longer get the error
# "ValueError: The method eth_sendTransaction does not exist/is not available

Example how to run this in UNIX shell:

# Generate a new 256-bit random integer using openssl UNIX command that acts as a␣
˓→private key.

# You can also do:

# python -c "from web3 import Web3; w3 = Web3(); acc = w3.eth.account.create(); print(f
˓→'private key={w3.to_hex(acc.key)}, account={acc.address}')"

# Store this in a safe place, like in your password manager.

export PRIVATE_KEY=0x`openssl rand -hex 32`

# Run our script

python account_test_script.py

This will print:

Your hot wallet address is 0x27C8F899bb69E1501BBB96d09d7477a2a7518918

2.6.7 Extract private key from geth keyfile

Note: The amount of available ram should be greater than 1GB.

with open('~/.ethereum/keystore/UTC--...--5ce9454909639D2D17A3F753ce7d93fa0b9aB12E') as␣

˓→keyfile:

encrypted_key = keyfile.read()
private_key = w3.eth.account.decrypt(encrypted_key, 'correcthorsebatterystaple')
# tip: do not save the key or password anywhere, especially into a shared source file

2.6.8 Sign a Message

Warning: There is no single message format that is broadly adopted with community consensus. Keep an eye on
several options, like EIP-683, EIP-712, and EIP-719. Consider the w3.eth.sign() approach be deprecated.

For this example, we will use the same message hashing mechanism that is provided by w3.eth.sign().

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> from eth_account.messages import encode_defunct

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>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> msg = "ISF"
>>> private_key = b"\xb2\\}\xb3\x1f\xee\xd9\x12''\xbf\t9\xdcv\x9a\x96VK-\xe4\xc4rm\x03[6\
˓→xec\xf1\xe5\xb3d"

>>> message = encode_defunct(text=msg)

>>> signed_message = w3.eth.account.sign_message(message, private_key=private_key)
>>> signed_message
SignedMessage(messageHash=HexBytes(
˓→'0x1476abb745d423bf09273f1afd887d951181d25adc66c4834a70491911b7f750'),

r=104389933075820307925104709181714897380569894203213074526835978196648170704563,
s=28205917190874851400050446352651915501321657673772411533993420917949420456142,
v=28,
signature=HexBytes(
˓→'0xe6ca9bba58c88611fad66a6ce8f996908195593807c4b38bd528d2cff09d4eb33e5bfbbf4d3e39b1a2fd816a7680c19ebeb

˓→'))

2.6.9 Verify a Message

With the original message text and a signature:

>>> message = encode_defunct(text="ISF")

>>> w3.eth.account.recover_message(message, signature=signed_message.signature)
'0x5ce9454909639D2D17A3F753ce7d93fa0b9aB12E'

2.6.10 Prepare message for ecrecover in Solidity

Let’s say you want a contract to validate a signed message, like if you’re making payment channels, and you want to
validate the value in Remix or web3.js.
You might have produced the signed_message locally, as in Sign a Message. If so, this will prepare it for Solidity:

>>> from web3 import Web3

# ecrecover in Solidity expects v as a native uint8, but r and s as left-padded bytes32

# Remix / web3.js expect r and s to be encoded to hex
# This convenience method will do the pad & hex for us:
>>> def to_32byte_hex(val):
... return Web3.to_hex(Web3.to_bytes(val).rjust(32, b'\0'))

>>> ec_recover_args = (msghash, v, r, s) = (

... Web3.to_hex(signed_message.messageHash),
... signed_message.v,
... to_32byte_hex(signed_message.r),
... to_32byte_hex(signed_message.s),
... )
>>> ec_recover_args
('0x1476abb745d423bf09273f1afd887d951181d25adc66c4834a70491911b7f750',
28,
'0xe6ca9bba58c88611fad66a6ce8f996908195593807c4b38bd528d2cff09d4eb3',
'0x3e5bfbbf4d3e39b1a2fd816a7680c19ebebaf3a141b239934ad43cb33fcec8ce')

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Instead, you might have received a message and a signature encoded to hex. Then this will prepare it for Solidity:

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> from eth_account.messages import encode_defunct, _hash_eip191_message

>>> hex_message = '0x49e299a55346'

>>> hex_signature =
˓→'0xe6ca9bba58c88611fad66a6ce8f996908195593807c4b38bd528d2cff09d4eb33e5bfbbf4d3e39b1a2fd816a7680c19ebeb

˓→'

# ecrecover in Solidity expects an encoded version of the message

# - encode the message

>>> message = encode_defunct(hexstr=hex_message)

# - hash the message explicitly

>>> message_hash = _hash_eip191_message(message)

# Remix / web3.js expect the message hash to be encoded to a hex string

>>> hex_message_hash = Web3.to_hex(message_hash)

# ecrecover in Solidity expects the signature to be split into v as a uint8,

# and r, s as a bytes32
# Remix / web3.js expect r and s to be encoded to hex
>>> sig = Web3.to_bytes(hexstr=hex_signature)
>>> v, hex_r, hex_s = Web3.to_int(sig[-1]), Web3.to_hex(sig[:32]), Web3.to_
˓→hex(sig[32:64])

# ecrecover in Solidity takes the arguments in order = (msghash, v, r, s)

>>> ec_recover_args = (hex_message_hash, v, hex_r, hex_s)
>>> ec_recover_args
('0x1476abb745d423bf09273f1afd887d951181d25adc66c4834a70491911b7f750',
28,
'0xe6ca9bba58c88611fad66a6ce8f996908195593807c4b38bd528d2cff09d4eb3',
'0x3e5bfbbf4d3e39b1a2fd816a7680c19ebebaf3a141b239934ad43cb33fcec8ce')

2.6.11 Verify a message with ecrecover in Solidity

Create a simple ecrecover contract in Remix:

pragma solidity ^0.4.19;

contract Recover {
function ecr (bytes32 msgh, uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) public pure
returns (address sender) {
return ecrecover(msgh, v, r, s);
}
}

Then call ecr with these arguments from Prepare message for ecrecover in Solidity in
Remix, "0x1476abb745d423bf09273f1afd887d951181d25adc66c4834a70491911b7f750",
28, "0xe6ca9bba58c88611fad66a6ce8f996908195593807c4b38bd528d2cff09d4eb3",
"0x3e5bfbbf4d3e39b1a2fd816a7680c19ebebaf3a141b239934ad43cb33fcec8ce"

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The message is verified, because we get the correct sender of the message back in response:
0x5ce9454909639d2d17a3f753ce7d93fa0b9ab12e.

2.6.12 Sign a Transaction

Create a transaction, sign it locally, and then send it to your node for broadcasting, with send_raw_transaction().

>>> transaction = {
... 'to': '0xF0109fC8DF283027b6285cc889F5aA624EaC1F55',
... 'value': 1000000000,
... 'gas': 2000000,
... 'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
... 'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
... 'nonce': 0,
... 'chainId': 1,
... 'type': '0x2', # the type is optional and, if omitted, will be interpreted␣
˓→based on the provided transaction parameters

... 'accessList': ( # accessList is optional for dynamic fee transactions

... {
... 'address': '0xde0b295669a9fd93d5f28d9ec85e40f4cb697bae',
... 'storageKeys': (
... '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003',
... '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007',
... )
... },
... {
... 'address': '0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413',
... 'storageKeys': ()
... },
... )
... }
>>> key = '0x4c0883a69102937d6231471b5dbb6204fe5129617082792ae468d01a3f362318'
>>> signed = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(transaction, key)
>>> signed.rawTransaction
HexBytes(
˓→'0x02f8e20180843b9aca008477359400831e848094f0109fc8df283027b6285cc889f5aa624eac1f55843b9aca0080f872f85

˓→')

>>> signed.hash
HexBytes('0xe85ce7efa52c16cb5c469c7bde54fbd4911639fdfde08003f65525a85076d915')
>>> signed.r
84095564551732371065849105252408326384410939276686534847013731510862163857293
>>> signed.s
32698347985257114675470251181312399332782188326270244072370350491677872459742
>>> signed.v
1

# When you run send_raw_transaction, you get back the hash of the transaction:
>>> w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed.rawTransaction)
'0xe85ce7efa52c16cb5c469c7bde54fbd4911639fdfde08003f65525a85076d915'

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2.6.13 Sign a Contract Transaction

To sign a transaction locally that will invoke a smart contract:

1. Initialize your Contract object
2. Build the transaction
3. Sign the transaction, with w3.eth.account.sign_transaction()
4. Broadcast the transaction with send_raw_transaction()

# When running locally, execute the statements found in the file linked below to load␣
˓→the EIP20_ABI variable.

# See: https://github.com/carver/ethtoken.py/blob/v0.0.1-alpha.4/ethtoken/abi.py

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())

>>> unicorns = w3.eth.contract(address="0xfB6916095ca1df60bB79Ce92cE3Ea74c37c5d359",␣

˓→abi=EIP20_ABI)

>>> nonce = w3.eth.get_transaction_count('0x5ce9454909639D2D17A3F753ce7d93fa0b9aB12E')

# Build a transaction that invokes this contract's function, called transfer

>>> unicorn_txn = unicorns.functions.transfer(
... '0xfB6916095ca1df60bB79Ce92cE3Ea74c37c5d359',
... 1,
... ).build_transaction({
... 'chainId': 1,
... 'gas': 70000,
... 'maxFeePerGas': w3.to_wei('2', 'gwei'),
... 'maxPriorityFeePerGas': w3.to_wei('1', 'gwei'),
... 'nonce': nonce,
... })

>>> unicorn_txn
{'value': 0,
'chainId': 1,
'gas': 70000,
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
'nonce': 0,
'to': '0xfB6916095ca1df60bB79Ce92cE3Ea74c37c5d359',
'data':
˓→'0xa9059cbb000000000000000000000000fb6916095ca1df60bb79ce92ce3ea74c37c5d359000000000000000000000000000

˓→'}

>>> private_key = b"\xb2\\}\xb3\x1f\xee\xd9\x12''\xbf\t9\xdcv\x9a\x96VK-\xe4\xc4rm\x03[6\

˓→xec\xf1\xe5\xb3d"

>>> signed_txn = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(unicorn_txn, private_key=private_key)

>>> signed_txn.hash
HexBytes('0x748db062639a45e519dba934fce09c367c92043867409160c9989673439dc817')
>>> signed_txn.rawTransaction
HexBytes(
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˓→ '0x02f8b00180843b9aca0084773594008301117094fb6916095ca1df60bb79ce92ce3ea74c37c5d35980b844a9059cbb00000
˓→')

>>> signed_txn.r
93522894155654168208483453926995743737629589441154283159505514235904280342434
>>> signed_txn.s
48417310681110102814014302147799665717176259465062324746227758019974374282313
>>> signed_txn.v
1

>>> w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_txn.rawTransaction)

# When you run send_raw_transaction, you get the same result as the hash of the␣
˓→transaction:

>>> w3.to_hex(w3.keccak(signed_txn.rawTransaction))
'0x748db062639a45e519dba934fce09c367c92043867409160c9989673439dc817'

2.7 Sending Transactions

Note: Prefer to view this code in a Jupyter Notebook? View the repo here.

There are two methods for sending transactions using web3.py: send_transaction() and
send_raw_transaction(). A brief guide:
1. Want to sign a transaction offline or send pre-signed transactions?
• use sign_transaction + send_raw_transaction()
2. Are you primarily using the same account for all transactions and would you prefer to save a few lines of code?
• configure construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(), then
• use send_transaction()
3. Otherwise:
• load account via eth-account (w3.eth.account.from_key(pk)), then
• use send_transaction()
Interacting with or deploying a contract?
• Option 1: transact() uses send_transaction() under the hood
• Option 2: build_transaction() + sign_transaction + send_raw_transaction()
An example for each can be found below.

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2.7.1 Chapter 0: w3.eth.send_transaction with eth-tester

Many tutorials use eth-tester (via EthereumTesterProvider) for convenience and speed of conveying ideas/building
a proof of concept. Transactions sent by test accounts are auto-signed.

from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())

# eth-tester populates accounts with test ether:

acct1 = w3.eth.accounts[0]

some_address = "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

# when using one of its generated test accounts,

# eth-tester signs the tx (under the hood) before sending:
tx_hash = w3.eth.send_transaction({
"from": acct1,
"to": some_address,
"value": 123123123123123
})

tx = w3.eth.get_transaction(tx_hash)
assert tx["from"] == acct1

2.7.2 Chapter 1: w3.eth.send_transaction + signer middleware

The send_transaction() method is convenient and to-the-point. If you want to continue using the pattern after
graduating from eth-tester, you can utilize web3.py middleware to sign transactions from a particular account:

from web3.middleware import construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware

import os

# Note: Never commit your key in your code! Use env variables instead:
pk = os.environ.get('PRIVATE_KEY')

# Instantiate an Account object from your key:

acct2 = w3.eth.account.from_key(pk)

# For the sake of this example, fund the new account:

w3.eth.send_transaction({
"from": acct1,
"value": w3.to_wei(3, 'ether'),
"to": acct2.address
})

# Add acct2 as auto-signer:

w3.middleware_onion.add(construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(acct2))
# pk also works: w3.middleware_onion.add(construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(pk))

# Transactions from `acct2` will then be signed, under the hood, in the middleware:
tx_hash = w3.eth.send_transaction({
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"from": acct2.address,
"value": 3333333333,
"to": some_address
})

tx = w3.eth.get_transaction(tx_hash)
assert tx["from"] == acct2.address

# Optionally, you can set a default signer as well:

# w3.eth.default_account = acct2.address
# Then, if you omit a "from" key, acct2 will be used.

2.7.3 Chapter 2: w3.eth.send_raw_transaction

if you don’t opt for the middleware, you’ll need to:

• build each transaction,
• sign_transaction, and
• then use send_raw_transaction().

# 1. Build a new tx
transaction = {
'from': acct2.address,
'to': some_address,
'value': 1000000000,
'nonce': w3.eth.get_transaction_count(acct2.address),
'gas': 200000,
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
}

# 2. Sign tx with a private key

signed = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(transaction, pk)

# 3. Send the signed transaction

tx_hash = w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed.rawTransaction)
tx = w3.eth.get_transaction(tx_hash)
assert tx["from"] == acct2.address

2.7.4 Chapter 3: Contract transactions

The same concepts apply for contract interactions, at least under the hood.
Executing a function on a smart contract requires sending a transaction, which is typically done in one of two ways:
• executing the transact() function, or
• build_transaction(), then signing and sending the raw transaction.

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#########################################
#### SMOL CONTRACT FOR THIS EXAMPLE: ####
#########################################
# // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# pragma solidity 0.8.17;
#
# contract Billboard {
# string public message;
#
# constructor(string memory _message) {
# message = _message;
# }
#
# function writeBillboard(string memory _message) public {
# message = _message;
# }
# }

# After compiling the contract, initialize the contract factory:

init_bytecode = "60806040523480156200001157600080fd5b5060..."
abi = '[{"inputs": [{"internalType": "string","name": "_message",...'
Billboard = w3.eth.contract(bytecode=init_bytecode, abi=abi)

# Deploy a contract using `transact` + the signer middleware:

tx_hash = Billboard.constructor("gm").transact({"from": acct2.address})
receipt = w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
deployed_addr = receipt["contractAddress"]

# Reference the deployed contract:

billboard = w3.eth.contract(address=deployed_addr, abi=abi)

# Manually build and sign a transaction:

unsent_billboard_tx = billboard.functions.writeBillboard("gn").build_transaction({
"from": acct2.address,
"nonce": w3.eth.get_transaction_count(acct2.address),
})
signed_tx = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(unsent_billboard_tx, private_key=acct2.key)

# Send the raw transaction:

assert billboard.functions.message().call() == "gm"
tx_hash = w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_tx.rawTransaction)
w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
assert billboard.functions.message().call() == "gn"

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2.8 Monitoring Events

If you’re on this page, you’re likely looking for an answer to this question: How do I know when a specific contract
is used? You have at least three options:
1. Query blocks for transactions that include the contract address in the "to" field. This contrived example is
searching the latest block for any transactions sent to the WETH contract.

WETH_ADDRESS = '0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2'

block = w3.eth.get_block('latest')
for tx_hash in block.transactions:
tx = w3.eth.get_transaction(tx_hash)
if tx['to'] == WETH_ADDRESS:
print(f'Found interaction with WETH contract! {tx}')

2. Query for logs emitted by a contract. After instantiating a web3.py Contract object, you can fetch logs for any
event listed in the ABI. In this example, we query for Transfer events in the latest block and log out the results.

WETH_ADDRESS = '0xC02aaA39b223FE8D0A0e5C4F27eAD9083C756Cc2'
WETH_ABI = '[{"constant":true,"inputs":[],"name":"name","outputs":[{"name":"","type":
˓→"string"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"constant

˓→":false,"inputs":[{"name":"guy","type":"address"},{"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],

˓→"name":"approve","outputs":[{"name":"","type":"bool"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability

˓→":"nonpayable","type":"function"},{"constant":true,"inputs":[],"name":"totalSupply",

˓→"outputs":[{"name":"","type":"uint256"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type

˓→":"function"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[{"name":"src","type":"address"},{"name":"dst

˓→","type":"address"},{"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],"name":"transferFrom","outputs":[{

˓→"name":"","type":"bool"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":

˓→"function"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[{"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],"name":

˓→"withdraw","outputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":"function

˓→"},{"constant":true,"inputs":[],"name":"decimals","outputs":[{"name":"","type":"uint8"}

˓→],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"constant":true,"inputs

˓→":[{"name":"","type":"address"}],"name":"balanceOf","outputs":[{"name":"","type":

˓→"uint256"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"constant

˓→":true,"inputs":[],"name":"symbol","outputs":[{"name":"","type":"string"}],"payable

˓→":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[{"name

˓→":"dst","type":"address"},{"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],"name":"transfer","outputs

˓→":[{"name":"","type":"bool"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":

˓→"function"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[],"name":"deposit","outputs":[],"payable":true,

˓→"stateMutability":"payable","type":"function"},{"constant":true,"inputs":[{"name":"",

˓→"type":"address"},{"name":"","type":"address"}],"name":"allowance","outputs":[{"name":"

˓→","type":"uint256"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"},{

˓→"payable":true,"stateMutability":"payable","type":"fallback"},{"anonymous":false,

˓→"inputs":[{"indexed":true,"name":"src","type":"address"},{"indexed":true,"name":"guy",

˓→"type":"address"},{"indexed":false,"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],"name":"Approval",

˓→"type":"event"},{"anonymous":false,"inputs":[{"indexed":true,"name":"src","type":

˓→"address"},{"indexed":true,"name":"dst","type":"address"},{"indexed":false,"name":"wad

˓→","type":"uint256"}],"name":"Transfer","type":"event"},{"anonymous":false,"inputs":[{

˓→"indexed":true,"name":"dst","type":"address"},{"indexed":false,"name":"wad","type":

˓→"uint256"}],"name":"Deposit","type":"event"},{"anonymous":false,"inputs":[{"indexed

˓→":true,"name":"src","type":"address"},{"indexed":false,"name":"wad","type":"uint256"}],

˓→"name":"Withdrawal","type":"event"}]'

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weth_contract = w3.eth.contract(address=WETH_ADDRESS, abi=WETH_ABI)

# fetch transfer events in the last block

logs = weth_contract.events.Transfer().get_logs(fromBlock=w3.eth.block_number)

for log in logs:

print(f"Transfer of {w3.from_wei(log.args.wad, 'ether')} WETH from {log.args.src} to
˓→{log.args.dst}")

See an advanced example of fetching log history here.

3. Use a filter.

Warning: While filters can be a very convenient way to monitor for blocks, transactions, or events, they are
notoriously unreliable. Both remote and locally hosted nodes have a reputation for occasionally dropping filters,
and some remote node providers don’t support filter-related RPC calls at all.

The web3.eth.Eth.filter() method can be used to set up filters for:

• Pending Transactions: w3.eth.filter("pending")
• New Blocks w3.eth.filter("latest")
• Event Logs
Through the contract instance api:

event_filter = mycontract.events.myEvent.create_filter(fromBlock='latest',␣
˓→argument_filters={'arg1':10})

Or built manually by supplying valid filter params:

event_filter = w3.eth.filter({"address": contract_address})

• Attaching to an existing filter

existing_filter = w3.eth.filter(filter_id="0x0")

Note: Creating event filters requires that your Ethereum node has an API support enabled for filters. Note that Infura
support for filters does not offer access to pending filters. To get event logs on other stateless nodes please see web3.
contract.ContractEvents.

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2.8.1 Filter Class

class web3.utils.filters.Filter(web3, filter_id)

Filter.filter_id
The filter_id for this filter as returned by the eth_newFilter RPC method when this filter was created.
Filter.get_new_entries()
Retrieve new entries for this filter.
Logs will be retrieved using the web3.eth.Eth.get_filter_changes() which returns only new entries since
the last poll.
Filter.get_all_entries()
Retrieve all entries for this filter.
Logs will be retrieved using the web3.eth.Eth.get_filter_logs() which returns all entries that match the
given filter.
Filter.format_entry(entry)
Hook for subclasses to modify the format of the log entries this filter returns, or passes to its callback functions.
By default this returns the entry parameter umodified.
Filter.is_valid_entry(entry)
Hook for subclasses to add additional programmatic filtering. The default implementation always returns True.

2.8.2 Block and Transaction Filter Classes

class web3.utils.filters.BlockFilter(...)

BlockFilter is a subclass of Filter.

You can setup a filter for new blocks using web3.eth.filter('latest') which will return a new BlockFilter
object.

new_block_filter = w3.eth.filter('latest')
new_block_filter.get_new_entries()

Note: "safe" and "finalized" block identifiers are not yet supported for eth_newBlockFilter.

class web3.utils.filters.TransactionFilter(...)

TransactionFilter is a subclass of Filter.

You can setup a filter for new blocks using web3.eth.filter('pending') which will return a new
TransactionFilter object.

new_transaction_filter = w3.eth.filter('pending')
new_transaction_filter.get_new_entries()

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2.8.3 Event Log Filters

You can set up a filter for event logs using the web3.py contract api: web3.contract.Contract.events.
your_event_name.create_filter(), which provides some conveniences for creating event log filters. Refer to
the following example:

event_filter = myContract.events.<event_name>.create_filter(fromBlock="latest",
˓→ argument_filters={'arg1':10})

event_filter.get_new_entries()

See web3.contract.Contract.events.your_event_name.create_filter() documentation for more informa-

tion.
You can set up an event log filter like the one above with web3.eth.filter by supplying a dictionary containing the
standard filter parameters. Assuming that arg1 is indexed, the equivalent filter creation would look like:

event_signature_hash = web3.keccak(text="eventName(uint32)").hex()
event_filter = web3.eth.filter({
"address": myContract_address,
"topics": [event_signature_hash,

˓→"0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a"],
})

The topics argument is order-dependent. For non-anonymous events, the first item in the topic list is always the
keccack hash of the event signature. Subsequent topic items are the hex encoded values for indexed event arguments.
In the above example, the second item is the arg1 value 10 encoded to its hex string representation.
In addition to being order-dependent, there are a few more points to recognize when specifying topic filters:
Given a transaction log with topics [A, B], the following topic filters will yield a match:
• [] “anything”
• [A] “A in first position (and anything after)”
• [None, B] “anything in first position AND B in second position (and anything after)”
• [A, B] “A in first position AND B in second position (and anything after)”
• [[A, B], [A, B]] “(A OR B) in first position AND (A OR B) in second position (and anything after)”
See the JSON-RPC documentation for eth_newFilter more information on the standard filter parameters.

Note: Though "finalized" and "safe" block identifiers are not yet part of the specifications for
eth_newFilter, they are supported by web3.py and may or may not yield expected results depending
on the node being accessed.

Creating a log filter by either of the above methods will return a LogFilter instance.
class web3.utils.filters.LogFilter(web3, filter_id, log_entry_formatter=None, data_filter_set=None)

The LogFilter class is a subclass of Filter. See the Filter documentation for inherited methods.
LogFilter provides the following additional methods:
LogFilter.set_data_filters(data_filter_set)

Provides a means to filter on the log data, in other words the ability to filter on values from un-indexed event arguments.
The parameter data_filter_set should be a list or set of 32-byte hex encoded values.

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2.8.4 Examples: Listening For Events

Synchronous

from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider

import time

# instantiate Web3 instance

w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))

def handle_event(event):
print(event)

def log_loop(event_filter, poll_interval):

while True:
for event in event_filter.get_new_entries():
handle_event(event)
time.sleep(poll_interval)

def main():
block_filter = w3.eth.filter('latest')
log_loop(block_filter, 2)

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Asynchronous Filter Polling

Starting with web3 version 4, the watch method was taken out of the web3 filter objects. There are many decisions
to be made when designing a system regarding threading and concurrency. Rather than force a decision, web3 leaves
these choices up to the user. Below are some example implementations of asynchronous filter-event handling that can
serve as starting points.

Single threaded concurrency with async and await

Beginning in python 3.5, the async and await built-in keywords were added. These provide a shared api for coroutines
that can be utilized by modules such as the built-in asyncio. Below is an example event loop using asyncio, that polls
multiple web3 filter object, and passes new entries to a handler.

from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider

import asyncio

# instantiate Web3 instance

w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))

def handle_event(event):
print(event)
# and whatever

async def log_loop(event_filter, poll_interval):

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for event in event_filter.get_new_entries():
handle_event(event)
await asyncio.sleep(poll_interval)

def main():
block_filter = w3.eth.filter('latest')
tx_filter = w3.eth.filter('pending')
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
try:
loop.run_until_complete(
asyncio.gather(
log_loop(block_filter, 2),
log_loop(tx_filter, 2)))
finally:
loop.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Read the asyncio documentation for more information.

Running the event loop in a separate thread

Here is an extended version of above example, where the event loop is run in a separate thread, releasing the main
function for other tasks.

from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider

from threading import Thread
import time

# instantiate Web3 instance

w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))

def handle_event(event):
print(event)
# and whatever

def log_loop(event_filter, poll_interval):

while True:
for event in event_filter.get_new_entries():
handle_event(event)
time.sleep(poll_interval)

def main():
block_filter = w3.eth.filter('latest')
worker = Thread(target=log_loop, args=(block_filter, 5), daemon=True)
worker.start()
# .. do some other stuff

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if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Here are some other libraries that provide frameworks for writing asynchronous python:
• gevent
• twisted
• celery

2.9 Contracts

Smart contracts are programs deployed to the Ethereum network. See the ethereum.org docs for a proper introduction.

2.9.1 Contract Deployment Example

To run this example, you will need to install a few extra features:
• The sandbox node provided by eth-tester. You can install it with:

$ pip install -U "web3[tester]"

• py-solc-x. This is the supported route to installing the solidity compiler solc. You can install it with:

$ pip install py-solc-x

After py-solc-x is installed, you will need to install a version of solc. You can install the latest version via a new
REPL with:

>>> from solcx import install_solc

>>> install_solc(version='latest')

You should now be set up to compile and deploy a contract.

The following example runs through these steps: #. Compile Solidity contract into bytecode and an ABI #. Initialize a
Contract Web3.py instance #. Deploy the contract using the Contract instance to initiate a transaction #. Interact with
the contract functions using the Contract instance

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> from solcx import compile_source

# Solidity source code

>>> compiled_sol = compile_source(
... '''
... pragma solidity >0.5.0;
...
... contract Greeter {
... string public greeting;
...
... constructor() public {
... greeting = 'Hello';
... }
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...
... function setGreeting(string memory _greeting) public {
... greeting = _greeting;
... }
...
... function greet() view public returns (string memory) {
... return greeting;
... }
... }
... ''',
... output_values=['abi', 'bin']
... )

# retrieve the contract interface

>>> contract_id, contract_interface = compiled_sol.popitem()

# get bytecode / bin

>>> bytecode = contract_interface['bin']

# get abi
>>> abi = contract_interface['abi']

# web3.py instance
>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.EthereumTesterProvider())

# set pre-funded account as sender

>>> w3.eth.default_account = w3.eth.accounts[0]

>>> Greeter = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)

# Submit the transaction that deploys the contract

>>> tx_hash = Greeter.constructor().transact()

# Wait for the transaction to be mined, and get the transaction receipt
>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)

>>> greeter = w3.eth.contract(

... address=tx_receipt.contractAddress,
... abi=abi
... )

>>> greeter.functions.greet().call()
'Hello'

>>> tx_hash = greeter.functions.setGreeting('Nihao').transact()

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> greeter.functions.greet().call()
'Nihao'

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2.9.2 Contract Factories

These factories are not intended to be initialized directly. Instead, create contract objects using the w3.eth.
contract() method. By default, the contract factory is Contract.
class web3.contract.Contract(address)
Contract provides a default interface for deploying and interacting with Ethereum smart contracts.
The address parameter can be a hex address or an ENS name, like mycontract.eth.

2.9.3 Properties

Each Contract Factory exposes the following properties.

Contract.address
The hexadecimal encoded 20-byte address of the contract, or an ENS name. May be None if not provided during
factory creation.
Contract.abi
The contract abi, or Application Binary Interface, specifies how a contract can be interacted with. Without an
abi, the contract cannot be decoded. The abi enables the Contract instance to expose functions and events as
object properties.
For further details, see the Solidity ABI specification.
Contract.bytecode
The contract bytecode string. May be None if not provided during factory creation.
Contract.bytecode_runtime
The runtime part of the contract bytecode string. May be None if not provided during factory creation.
Contract.decode_tuples
If a Tuple/Struct is returned by a contract function, this flag defines whether to apply the field names from the
ABI to the returned data. If False, the returned value will be a normal Python Tuple. If True, the returned value
will be a Python NamedTuple of the class ABIDecodedNamedTuple.
NamedTuples have some restrictions regarding field names. web3.py sets NamedTuple’s rename=True, so dis-
allowed field names may be different than expected. See the Python docs for more information.
Defaults to False if not provided during factory creation.
Contract.functions
This provides access to contract functions as attributes. For example: myContract.functions.MyMethod().
The exposed contract functions are classes of the type ContractFunction.
Contract.events
This provides access to contract events as attributes. For example: myContract.events.MyEvent(). The
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2.9.4 Methods

Each Contract Factory exposes the following methods.

classmethod Contract.constructor(*args, **kwargs).transact(transaction=None)
Construct and deploy a contract by sending a new public transaction.
If provided transaction should be a dictionary conforming to the web3.eth.
send_transaction(transaction) method. This value may not contain the keys data or to.
If the contract takes constructor parameters they should be provided as positional arguments or keyword argu-
ments.
If any of the arguments specified in the ABI are an address type, they will accept ENS names.
If a gas value is not provided, then the gas value for the deployment transaction will be created using the web3.
eth.estimate_gas() method.
Returns the transaction hash for the deploy transaction.

>>> deploy_txn = token_contract.constructor(web3.eth.coinbase, 12345).transact()

>>> txn_receipt = web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(deploy_txn)
>>> txn_receipt['contractAddress']
'0x4c0883a69102937d6231471b5dbb6204fe5129617082792ae468d01a3f362318'

classmethod Contract.constructor(*args, **kwargs).estimate_gas(transaction=None,

block_identifier=None)
Estimate gas for constructing and deploying the contract.
This method behaves the same as the Contract.constructor(*args, **kwargs).transact() method,
with transaction details being passed into the end portion of the function call, and function arguments being
passed into the first portion.
The block_identifier parameter is passed directly to the call at the end portion of the function call.
Returns the amount of gas consumed which can be used as a gas estimate for executing this transaction publicly.
Returns the gas needed to deploy the contract.

>>> token_contract.constructor(web3.eth.coinbase, 12345).estimate_gas()

12563

classmethod Contract.constructor(*args, **kwargs).build_transaction(transaction=None)

Construct the contract deploy transaction bytecode data.
If the contract takes constructor parameters they should be provided as positional arguments or keyword argu-
ments.
If any of the args specified in the ABI are an address type, they will accept ENS names.
Returns the transaction dictionary that you can pass to send_transaction method.

>>> transaction = {
'gasPrice': w3.eth.gas_price,
'chainId': None
}
>>> contract_data = token_contract.constructor(web3.eth.coinbase, 12345).build_
˓→transaction(transaction)

>>> web3.eth.send_transaction(contract_data)

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classmethod Contract.events.your_event_name.create_filter(fromBlock=None, toBlock='latest',

argument_filters={}, topics=[])
Creates a new event filter, an instance of web3.utils.filters.LogFilter.
• fromBlock is a mandatory field. Defines the starting block (exclusive) filter block range. It can be either
the starting block number, or ‘latest’ for the last mined block, or ‘pending’ for unmined transactions. In the
case of fromBlock, ‘latest’ and ‘pending’ set the ‘latest’ or ‘pending’ block as a static value for the starting
filter block.
• toBlock optional. Defaults to ‘latest’. Defines the ending block (inclusive) in the filter block range. Special
values ‘latest’ and ‘pending’ set a dynamic range that always includes the ‘latest’ or ‘pending’ blocks for
the filter’s upper block range.
• address optional. Defaults to the contract address. The filter matches the event logs emanating from
address.
• argument_filters, optional. Expects a dictionary of argument names and values. When provided event
logs are filtered for the event argument values. Event arguments can be both indexed or unindexed. Indexed
values will be translated to their corresponding topic arguments. Unindexed arguments will be filtered
using a regular expression.
• topics optional, accepts the standard JSON-RPC topics argument. See the JSON-RPC documentation for
eth_newFilter more information on the topics parameters.
classmethod Contract.events.your_event_name.build_filter()
Creates a EventFilterBuilder instance with the event abi, and the contract address if called from a deployed
contract instance. The EventFilterBuilder provides a convenient way to construct the filter parameters with value
checking against the event abi. It allows for defining multiple match values or of single values through the
match_any and match_single methods.

filter_builder = myContract.events.myEvent.build_filter()
filter_builder.fromBlock = "latest"
filter_builder.args.clientID.match_any(1, 2, 3, 4)
filter_builder.args.region.match_single("UK")
filter_instance = filter_builder.deploy()

The deploy method returns a web3.utils.filters.LogFilter instance from the filter parameters generated
by the filter builder. Defining multiple match values for array arguments can be accomplished easily with the
filter builder:

filter_builder = myContract.events.myEvent.build_filter()
filter_builder.args.clientGroups.match_any((1, 3, 5,), (2, 3, 5), (1, 2, 3))

The filter builder blocks already defined filter parameters from being changed.

filter_builder = myContract.events.myEvent.build_filter()
filter_builder.fromBlock = "latest"
filter_builder.fromBlock = 0 # raises a ValueError

classmethod Contract.encode_abi(fn_name, args=None, kwargs=None, data=None)

Encodes the arguments using the Ethereum ABI for the contract function that matches the given fn_name and
arguments args. The data parameter defaults to the function selector.

>>> contract.encode_abi(fn_name="register", args=["rainbows", 10])

˓→"0xea87152b00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000400000000000000000000000
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classmethod Contract.encodeABI(fn_name, args=None, kwargs=None, data=None)

Deprecated since version 7.0: Use Contract.encode_abi() instead.
classmethod Contract.all_functions()
Returns a list of all the functions present in a Contract where every function is an instance of
ContractFunction.

>>> contract.all_functions()
[<Function identity(uint256,bool)>, <Function identity(int256,bool)>]

classmethod Contract.get_function_by_signature(signature)
Searches for a distinct function with matching signature. Returns an instance of ContractFunction upon
finding a match. Raises ValueError if no match is found.

>>> contract.get_function_by_signature('identity(uint256,bool)')
<Function identity(uint256,bool)>

classmethod Contract.find_functions_by_name(name)
Searches for all function with matching name. Returns a list of matching functions where every function is an
instance of ContractFunction. Returns an empty list when no match is found.

>>> contract.find_functions_by_name('identity')
[<Function identity(uint256,bool)>, <Function identity(int256,bool)>]

classmethod Contract.get_function_by_name(name)
Searches for a distinct function with matching name. Returns an instance of ContractFunction upon finding
a match. Raises ValueError if no match is found or if multiple matches are found.

>>> contract.get_function_by_name('unique_name')
<Function unique_name(uint256)>

classmethod Contract.get_function_by_selector(selector)
Searches for a distinct function with matching selector. The selector can be a hexadecimal string, bytes or int.
Returns an instance of ContractFunction upon finding a match. Raises ValueError if no match is found.

>>> contract.get_function_by_selector('0xac37eebb')
<Function identity(uint256)'>
>>> contract.get_function_by_selector(b'\xac7\xee\xbb')
<Function identity(uint256)'>
>>> contract.get_function_by_selector(0xac37eebb)
<Function identity(uint256)'>

classmethod Contract.find_functions_by_args(*args)
Searches for all function with matching args. Returns a list of matching functions where every function is an
instance of ContractFunction. Returns an empty list when no match is found.

>>> contract.find_functions_by_args(1, True)

[<Function identity(uint256,bool)>, <Function identity(int256,bool)>]

classmethod Contract.get_function_by_args(*args)
Searches for a distinct function with matching args. Returns an instance of ContractFunction upon finding a
match. Raises ValueError if no match is found or if multiple matches are found.

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>>> contract.get_function_by_args(1)
<Function unique_func_with_args(uint256)>

Note: Contract methods all_functions, get_function_by_signature, find_functions_by_name,

get_function_by_name, get_function_by_selector, find_functions_by_args and
get_function_by_args can only be used when abi is provided to the contract.

Note: web3.py rejects the initialization of contracts that have more than one function with the same selector or
signature. eg. blockHashAddendsInexpansible(uint256) and blockHashAskewLimitary(uint256) have the
same selector value equal to 0x00000000. A contract containing both of these functions will be rejected.

2.9.5 Invoke Ambiguous Contract Functions Example

Below is an example of a contract that has multiple functions of the same name, and the arguments are ambiguous.

>>> contract_source_code = """

pragma solidity ^0.4.21;
contract AmbiguousDuo {
function identity(uint256 input, bool uselessFlag) returns (uint256) {
return input;
}
function identity(int256 input, bool uselessFlag) returns (int256) {
return input;
}
}
"""
# fast forward all the steps of compiling and deploying the contract.
>>> ambiguous_contract.functions.identity(1, True) # raises Web3ValidationError

>>> identity_func = ambiguous_contract.get_function_by_signature('identity(uint256,bool)

˓→')

>>> identity_func(1, True)

<Function identity(uint256,bool) bound to (1, True)>
>>> identity_func(1, True).call()
1

2.9.6 Disabling Strict Checks for Bytes Types

By default, web3 is strict when it comes to hex and bytes values, as of v6. If an abi specifies a byte size, but the value
that gets passed in is not the specified size, web3 will invalidate the value. For example, if an abi specifies a type of
bytes4, web3 will invalidate the following values:

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Table 1: Invalid byte and hex strings with strict (default) bytes4 type
checking
Input Reason
'' Needs to be prefixed with a “0x” to be interpreted as an empty hex string
2 Wrong type
'ah' String is not valid hex
'1234' Needs to either be a bytestring (b’1234’) or be a hex value of the right size, prefixed
with 0x (in this case: ‘0x31323334’)
b'' Needs to have exactly 4 bytes
b'ab' Needs to have exactly 4 bytes
'0xab' Needs to have exactly 4 bytes
'0x6162636464' Needs to have exactly 4 bytes

However, you may want to be less strict with acceptable values for bytes types. This may prove useful if you trust
that values coming through are what they are meant to be with respect to the ABI. In this case, the automatic padding
might be convenient for inferred types. For this, you can set the w3.strict_bytes_type_checking() flag to False,
which is available on the Web3 instance. A Web3 instance which has this flag set to False will have a less strict set of
rules on which values are accepted. A bytes type will allow values as a hex string, a bytestring, or a regular Python
string that can be decoded as a hex. 0x-prefixed hex strings are also not required.
• A Python string that is not prefixed with 0x is valid.
• A bytestring whose length is less than the specified byte size is valid.

Table 2: Valid byte and hex strings for a non-strict bytes4 type
Input Normalizes to
'' b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'
'0x' b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'
b'' b'\x00\x00\x00\x00'
b'ab' b'ab\x00\x00'
'0xab' b'\xab\x00\x00\x00'
'1234' b'\x124\x00\x00'
'0x61626364' b'abcd'
'1234' b'1234'

Taking the following contract code as an example:

>>> # pragma solidity >=0.4.22 <0.6.0;

...
... # contract ArraysContract {
... # bytes2[] public bytes2Value;

... # constructor(bytes2[] memory _bytes2Value) public {

... # bytes2Value = _bytes2Value;
... # }

... # function setBytes2Value(bytes2[] memory _bytes2Value) public {

... # bytes2Value = _bytes2Value;
... # }

... # function getBytes2Value() public view returns (bytes2[] memory) {

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... # return bytes2Value;
... # }
... # }

>>> # abi = "..."

>>> # bytecode = "6080..."

>>> arrays_contract_instance = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)

>>> tx_hash = arrays_contract_instance.constructor([b'bb']).transact()

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> arrays_contract = w3.eth.contract(
... address=tx_receipt.contractAddress,
... abi=abi
... )
>>> arrays_contract.functions.getBytes2Value().call()
[b'bb']

>>> # set value with appropriate byte size

>>> arrays_contract.functions.setBytes2Value([b'aa']).transact({'gas': 420000,
˓→"maxPriorityFeePerGas": 10 ** 9, "maxFeePerGas": 10 ** 9})

HexBytes('0xcb95151142ea56dbf2753d70388aef202a7bb5a1e323d448bc19f1d2e1fe3dc9')
>>> # check value
>>> arrays_contract.functions.getBytes2Value().call()
[b'aa']

>>> # trying to set value without appropriate size (bytes2) is not valid
>>> arrays_contract.functions.setBytes2Value([b'b']).transact()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
web3.exceptions.Web3ValidationError:
Could not identify the intended function with name
>>> # check value is still b'aa'
>>> arrays_contract.functions.getBytes2Value().call()
[b'aa']

>>> # disabling strict byte checking...

>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = False

>>> tx_hash = arrays_contract_instance.constructor([b'b']).transact()

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> arrays_contract = w3.eth.contract(
... address=tx_receipt.contractAddress,
... abi=abi
... )
>>> # check value is zero-padded... i.e. b'b\x00'
>>> arrays_contract.functions.getBytes2Value().call()
[b'b\x00']

>>> # set the flag back to True

>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = True

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>>> arrays_contract.functions.setBytes2Value([b'a']).transact()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
web3.exceptions.Web3ValidationError:
Could not identify the intended function with name

2.9.7 Contract Functions

class web3.contract.ContractFunction

The named functions exposed through the Contract.functions property are of the ContractFunction type. This
class is not to be used directly, but instead through Contract.functions.
For example:

myContract = web3.eth.contract(address=contract_address, abi=contract_abi)

twentyone = myContract.functions.multiply7(3).call()

If you have the function name in a variable, you might prefer this alternative:

func_to_call = 'multiply7'
contract_func = myContract.functions[func_to_call]
twentyone = contract_func(3).call()

ContractFunction provides methods to interact with contract functions. Positional and keyword arguments supplied
to the contract function subclass will be used to find the contract function by signature, and forwarded to the contract
function when applicable.
EIP-3668 introduced support for the OffchainLookup revert / CCIP Read support. CCIP Read is set to True for calls
by default, as recommended in EIP-3668. This is done via a global global_ccip_read_enabled flag on the provider.
If raising the OffchainLookup revert is preferred for a specific call, the ccip_read_enabled flag on the call may be
set to False.

>>> # raises the revert instead of handling the offchain lookup

>>> myContract.functions.revertsWithOffchainLookup(myData).call(ccip_read_
˓→enabled=False)

*** web3.exceptions.OffchainLookup

Disabling CCIP Read support can be useful if a transaction needs to be sent to the callback function. In such cases,
“preflighting” with an eth_call, handling the OffchainLookup, and sending the data via a transaction may be nec-
essary. See CCIP Read support for offchain lookup in the examples section for how to preflight a transaction with a
contract call.
Similarly, if CCIP Read is globally set to False via the global_ccip_read_enabled flag on the provider, it may
be enabled on a per-call basis - overriding the global flag. This ensures only explicitly enabled calls will handle the
OffchainLookup revert appropriately.

>>> # global flag set to `False`

>>> w3.provider.global_ccip_read_enabled = False

>>> # does not raise the revert since explicitly enabled on the call:
>>> response = myContract.functions.revertsWithOffchainLookup(myData).
˓→call(ccip_read_enabled=True)

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If the function called results in a revert error, a ContractLogicError will be raised. If there is an error message
with the error, web3.py attempts to parse the message that comes back and return it to the user as the error string. As
of v6.3.0, the raw data is also returned and can be accessed via the data attribute on ContractLogicError.

Methods

ContractFunction.transact(transaction)
Execute the specified function by sending a new public transaction.
Refer to the following invocation:

myContract.functions.myMethod(*args, **kwargs).transact(transaction)

The first portion of the function call myMethod(*args, **kwargs) selects the appropriate contract function
based on the name and provided argument. Arguments can be provided as positional arguments, keyword argu-
ments, or a mix of the two.
The end portion of this function call transact(transaction) takes a single parameter which should be
a python dictionary conforming to the same format as the web3.eth.send_transaction(transaction)
method. This dictionary may not contain the keys data.
If any of the args or kwargs specified in the ABI are an address type, they will accept ENS names.
If a gas value is not provided, then the gas value for the method transaction will be created using the web3.
eth.estimate_gas() method.
Returns the transaction hash.

>>> token_contract.functions.transfer(web3.eth.accounts[1], 12345).transact()

"0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd"

ContractFunction.call(transaction, block_identifier='latest')
Call a contract function, executing the transaction locally using the eth_call API. This will not create a new
public transaction.
Refer to the following invocation:

myContract.functions.myMethod(*args, **kwargs).call(transaction)

This method behaves the same as the ContractFunction.transact() method, with transaction details being
passed into the end portion of the function call, and function arguments being passed into the first portion.
Returns the return value of the executed function.

>>> my_contract.functions.multiply7(3).call()
21
>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call({'from': web3.eth.coinbase})
12345 # the token balance for `web3.eth.coinbase`
>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call({'from': web3.eth.accounts[1]})
54321 # the token balance for the account `web3.eth.accounts[1]`

You can call the method at a historical block using block_identifier. Some examples:

# You can call your contract method at a block number:

>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier=10)

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# or a number of blocks back from pending,
# in this case, the block just before the latest block:
>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier=-2)

# or a block hash:
>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier=
˓→'0x4ff4a38b278ab49f7739d3a4ed4e12714386a9fdf72192f2e8f7da7822f10b4d')

>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier=b'O\xf4\xa3\x8b\'\
˓→x8a\xb4\x9fw9\xd3\xa4\xedN\x12qC\x86\xa9\xfd\xf7!\x92\xf2\xe8\xf7\xdax"\xf1\x0bM')

# Latest is the default, so this is redundant:

>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier='latest')

# You can check the state after your pending transactions (if supported by your␣
˓→node):

>>> token_contract.functions.myBalance().call(block_identifier='pending')

Passing the block_identifier parameter for past block numbers requires that your Ethereum API node is
running in the more expensive archive node mode. Normally synced Ethereum nodes will fail with a “missing
trie node” error, because Ethereum node may have purged the past state from its database. More information
about archival nodes here.
ContractFunction.estimate_gas(transaction, block_identifier=None)
Call a contract function, executing the transaction locally using the eth_call API. This will not create a new
public transaction.
Refer to the following invocation:

myContract.functions.myMethod(*args, **kwargs).estimate_gas(transaction)

This method behaves the same as the ContractFunction.transact() method, with transaction details being
passed into the end portion of the function call, and function arguments being passed into the first portion.
Returns the amount of gas consumed which can be used as a gas estimate for executing this transaction publicly.

>>> my_contract.functions.multiply7(3).estimate_gas()
42650

Note: The parameter block_identifier is not enabled in geth nodes, hence passing a value of
block_identifier when connected to a geth nodes would result in an error like: ValueError: {'code':
-32602, 'message': 'too many arguments, want at most 1'}

ContractFunction.build_transaction(transaction)
Builds a transaction dictionary based on the contract function call specified.
Refer to the following invocation:

myContract.functions.myMethod(*args, **kwargs).build_transaction(transaction)

This method behaves the same as the Contract.transact() method, with transaction details being passed
into the end portion of the function call, and function arguments being passed into the first portion.

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Note: nonce is not returned as part of the transaction dictionary unless it is specified in the first portion of the
function call:

>>> math_contract.functions.increment(5).build_transaction({'nonce': 10})

You may use getTransactionCount() to get the current nonce for an account. Therefore a shortcut for pro-
ducing a transaction dictionary with nonce included looks like:

>>> math_contract.functions.increment(5).build_transaction({'nonce': web3.eth.get_

˓→transaction_count('0xF5...')})

Returns a transaction dictionary. This transaction dictionary can then be sent using send_transaction().
Additionally, the dictionary may be used for offline transaction signing using sign_transaction().

>>> math_contract.functions.increment(5).build_transaction({'maxFeePerGas':␣
˓→2000000000, 'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000})

{
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'data':
˓→'0x7cf5dab00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005',

'value': 0,
'gas': 43242,
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
'chainId': 1
}

Fallback Function

The Contract Factory also offers an API to interact with the fallback function, which supports four methods
like normal functions:
Contract.fallback.call(transaction)
Call fallback function, executing the transaction locally using the eth_call API. This will not create a new
public transaction.
Contract.fallback.estimate_gas(transaction)
Call fallback function and return the gas estimation.
Contract.fallback.transact(transaction)
Execute fallback function by sending a new public transaction.
Contract.fallback.build_transaction(transaction)
Builds a transaction dictionary based on the contract fallback function call.

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class web3.contract.ContractEvents

The named events exposed through the Contract.events property are of the ContractEvents type. This class is not
to be used directly, but instead through Contract.events.
For example:

myContract = web3.eth.contract(address=contract_address, abi=contract_abi)

tx_hash = myContract.functions.myFunction().transact()
receipt = web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
myContract.events.myEvent().process_receipt(receipt)

ContractEvent provides methods to interact with contract events. Positional and keyword arguments supplied to the
contract event subclass will be used to find the contract event by signature.
ContractEvents.myEvent(*args, **kwargs).get_logs(fromBlock=None, toBlock="latest", block_hash=None,
argument_filters={})
Fetches all logs for a given event within the specified block range or block hash.
argument_filters is an optional dictionary argument that can be used to filter for logs where the
event’s argument values match the values provided in the dictionary. The keys must match the event
argument names as they exist in the ABI. The values can either be a single value or a list of values to
match against. If a list is provided, the logs will be filtered for any logs that match any of the values in
the list. Indexed arguments are filtered pre-call by building specific topics to filter for. Non-indexed
arguments are filtered by the library after the logs are fetched from the node.

myContract = web3.eth.contract(address=contract_address, abi=contract_abi)

# get ``myEvent`` logs from block 1337 to block 2337 where the value for the
# event argument "eventArg1" is either 1, 2, or 3
myContract.events.myEvent().get_logs(
argument_filters={"eventArg1": [1, 2, 3]},
fromBlock=1337,
toBlock=2337,
)

ContractEvents.myEvent(*args, **kwargs).process_receipt(transaction_receipt, errors=WARN)

Extracts the pertinent logs from a transaction receipt.
If there are no errors, process_receipt returns a tuple of Event Log Objects, emitted from the event (e.g.
myEvent), with decoded output.

>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.myFunction(12345).transact({'to':contract_address})

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> rich_logs = contract.events.myEvent().process_receipt(tx_receipt)
>>> rich_logs[0]['args']
{'myArg': 12345}

If there are errors, the logs will be handled differently depending on the flag that is passed in:
• WARN (default) - logs a warning to the console for the log that has an error, and discards the log. Returns
any logs that are able to be processed.
• STRICT - stops all processing and raises the error encountered.

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• IGNORE - returns any raw logs that raised an error with an added “errors” field, along with any other logs
were able to be processed.
• DISCARD - silently discards any logs that have errors, and returns processed logs that don’t have errors.
An event log error flag needs to be imported from web3/logs.py.

>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.myFunction(12345).transact({'to':contract_address})

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> processed_logs = contract.events.myEvent().process_receipt(tx_receipt)
>>> processed_logs
(
AttributeDict({
'args': AttributeDict({}),
'event': 'myEvent',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0xfb95ccb6ab39e19821fb339dee33e7afe2545527725b61c64490a5613f8d11fa'),

'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0xd74c3e8bdb19337987b987aee0fa48ed43f8f2318edfc84e3a8643e009592a68'),

'blockNumber': 3
})
)

# Or, if there were errors encountered during processing:

>>> from web3.logs import STRICT, IGNORE, DISCARD, WARN
>>> processed_logs = contract.events.myEvent().process_receipt(tx_receipt,␣
˓→errors=IGNORE)

>>> processed_logs
(
AttributeDict({
'type': 'mined',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x01682095d5abb0270d11a31139b9a1f410b363c84add467004e728ec831bd529'),

'blockHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x92abf9325a3959a911a2581e9ea36cba3060d8b293b50e5738ff959feb95258a'),

'blockNumber': 5,
'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'data': '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003039
˓→',

'topics': [
HexBytes(
˓→'0xf70fe689e290d8ce2b2a388ac28db36fbb0e16a6d89c6804c461f65a1b40bb15')

],
'errors': LogTopicError('Expected 1 log topics. Got 0')})
})
)
>>> processed_logs = contract.events.myEvent().process_receipt(tx_receipt,␣
˓→errors=DISCARD)

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>>> assert processed_logs == ()
True

ContractEvents.myEvent(*args, **kwargs).process_log(log)
Similar to process_receipt, but only processes one log at a time, instead of a whole transaction receipt. Will
return a single Event Log Object if there are no errors encountered during processing. If an error is encountered
during processing, it will be raised.

>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.myFunction(12345).transact({'to':contract_address})

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> log_to_process = tx_receipt['logs'][0]
>>> processed_log = contract.events.myEvent().process_log(log_to_process)
>>> processed_log
AttributeDict({
'args': AttributeDict({}),
'event': 'myEvent',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0xfb95ccb6ab39e19821fb339dee33e7afe2545527725b61c64490a5613f8d11fa'),

'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0xd74c3e8bdb19337987b987aee0fa48ed43f8f2318edfc84e3a8643e009592a68'),

'blockNumber': 3
})

Event Log Object

The Event Log Object is a python dictionary with the following keys:
• args: Dictionary - The arguments coming from the event.
• event: String - The event name.
• logIndex: Number - integer of the log index position in the block.
• transactionIndex: Number - integer of the transactions index position log was created from.
• transactionHash: String, 32 Bytes - hash of the transactions this log was created from.
• address: String, 32 Bytes - address from which this log originated.
• blockHash: String, 32 Bytes - hash of the block where this log was in. null when it’s pending.
• blockNumber: Number - the block number where this log was in. null when it’s pending.

>>> transfer_filter = my_token_contract.events.Transfer.create_filter(fromBlock="0x0",␣

˓→argument_filters={'from': '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf'})

>>> transfer_filter.get_new_entries()
[AttributeDict({'args': AttributeDict({'from':
˓→'0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',

'to': '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',
'value': 10}),
'event': 'Transfer',
'logIndex': 0,
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'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x9da859237e7259832b913d51cb128c8d73d1866056f7a41b52003c953e749678'),

'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes('...'),
'blockNumber': 2})]
>>> transfer_filter.get_new_entries()
[]
>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.transfer(alice, 10).transact({'gas': 899000, 'gasPrice
˓→': 1000000000})

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)

>>> transfer_filter.get_new_entries()
[AttributeDict({'args': AttributeDict({'from':
˓→'0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',

'to': '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',
'value': 10}),
'event': 'Transfer',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes('...'),
'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes('...'),
'blockNumber': 3})]
>>> transfer_filter.get_all_entries()
[AttributeDict({'args': AttributeDict({'from':
˓→'0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',

'to': '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',
'value': 10}),
'event': 'Transfer',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes('...'),
'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes('...'),
'blockNumber': 2}),
AttributeDict({'args': AttributeDict({'from':
˓→'0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',

'to': '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf',
'value': 10}),
'event': 'Transfer',
'logIndex': 0,
'transactionIndex': 0,
'transactionHash': HexBytes('...'),
'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b',
'blockHash': HexBytes('...'),
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classmethod Contract.decode_function_input(data)
Decodes the transaction data used to invoke a smart contract function, and returns ContractFunction and
decoded parameters as dict.

>>> transaction = w3.eth.get_transaction(

˓→'0x5798fbc45e3b63832abc4984b0f3574a13545f415dd672cd8540cd71f735db56')

>>> transaction.input

'0x612e45a3000000000000000000000000b656b2a9c3b2416437a811e07466ca712f5a5b5a0000000000000000000000
˓→

'
˓→

>>> contract.decode_function_input(transaction.input)
(<Function newProposal(address,uint256,string,bytes,uint256,bool)>,
{'_recipient': '0xB656b2a9c3b2416437A811e07466cA712F5a5b5a',
'_amount': 0,
'_description': b'lonely, so lonely',
'_transactionData': b'',
'_debatingPeriod': 604800,
'_newCurator': True})

2.9.10 ContractCaller

class web3.contract.ContractCaller

The ContractCaller class provides an API to call functions in a contract. This class is not to be used directly, but
instead through Contract.caller.
There are a number of different ways to invoke the ContractCaller.
For example:

>>> myContract = w3.eth.contract(address=address, abi=ABI)

>>> twentyone = myContract.caller.multiply7(3)
>>> twentyone
21

It can also be invoked using parentheses:

>>> twentyone = myContract.caller().multiply7(3)

>>> twentyone
21

And a transaction dictionary, with or without the transaction keyword. You can also optionally include a block
identifier. For example:

>>> from_address = w3.eth.accounts[1]

>>> twentyone = myContract.caller({'from': from_address}).multiply7(3)
>>> twentyone
21
>>> twentyone = myContract.caller(transaction={'from': from_address}).multiply7(3)
>>> twentyone
21
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>>> twentyone = myContract.caller(block_identifier='latest').multiply7(3)
>>> twentyone
21

Like ContractFunction, ContractCaller provides methods to interact with contract functions. Positional and
keyword arguments supplied to the contract caller subclass will be used to find the contract function by signature, and
forwarded to the contract function when applicable.

2.9.11 Contract FAQs

How do I pass in a struct as a function argument?

web3.py accepts struct arguments as dictionaries. This format also supports nested structs. Let’s take a look at a quick
example. Given the following Solidity contract:

contract Example {
address addr;

struct S1 {
address a1;
address a2;
}

struct S2 {
bytes32 b1;
bytes32 b2;
}

struct X {
S1 s1;
S2 s2;
address[] users;
}

function update(X memory x) public {

addr = x.s1.a2;
}

function retrieve() public view returns (address) {

return addr;
}
}

You can interact with web3.py contract API as follows:

# deploy or lookup the deployed contract, then:

>>> deployed_contract.functions.retrieve().call()
'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'

>>> deployed_contract.functions.update({'s1': [
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˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000001',
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000002'], 's2': [b'0'*32, b'1'*32], 'users': []}).

˓→transact()

>>> deployed_contract.functions.retrieve().call()
'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000002'

Where can I find more information about Ethereum Contracts?

Comprehensive documentation for Contracts is available from the Solidity Docs.

2.10 ABI Types

The Web3 library follows the following conventions.

2.10.1 Bytes vs Text

• The term bytes is used to refer to the binary representation of a string.

• The term text is used to refer to unicode representations of strings.

2.10.2 Hexadecimal Representations

• All hexadecimal values will be returned as text.

• All hexadecimal values will be 0x prefixed.

2.10.3 Ethereum Addresses

All addresses must be supplied in one of three ways:

• A 20-byte hexadecimal that is checksummed using the EIP-55 spec.
• A 20-byte binary address (python bytes type).
• While connected to an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) supported chain, an ENS name (often in the form myname.
eth).

2.10.4 Disabling Strict Bytes Type Checking

There is a boolean flag on the Web3 class and the ENS class that will disable strict bytes type checking. This
allows bytes values of Python strings and allows byte strings less than the specified byte size, appropriately
padding values that need padding. To disable stricter checks, set the w3.strict_bytes_type_checking (or ns.
strict_bytes_type_checking) flag to False. This will no longer cause the Web3 / ENS instance to raise an error if
a Python string is passed in without a “0x” prefix. It will also render valid byte strings or hex strings that are below the
exact number of bytes specified by the ABI type by padding the value appropriately, according to the ABI type. See
the Disabling Strict Checks for Bytes Types section for an example on using the flag and more details.

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Note: If a standalone ENS instance is instantiated from a Web3 instance, i.e. ns = ENS.from_web3(w3), it will
inherit the value of the w3.strict_bytes_type_checking flag from the Web3 instance at the time of instantiation.
Also of note, all modules on the Web3 class will inherit the value of this flag, since all modules use the parent w3 object
reference under the hood. This means that w3.eth.w3.strict_bytes_type_checking will always have the same
value as w3.strict_bytes_type_checking.

For more details on the ABI specification, refer to the Solidity ABI Spec.

2.10.5 Types by Example

Let’s use a contrived contract to demonstrate input types in web3.py:

contract ManyTypes {
// booleans
bool public b;

// unsigned ints
uint8 public u8;
uint256 public u256;
uint256[] public u256s;

// signed ints
int8 public i8;

// addresses
address public addr;
address[] public addrs;

// bytes
bytes1 public b1;

// structs
struct S {
address sa;
bytes32 sb;
}
mapping(address => S) addrStructs;

function updateBool(bool x) public { b = x; }

function updateUint8(uint8 x) public { u8 = x; }
function updateUint256(uint256 x) public { u256 = x; }
function updateUintArray(uint256[] memory x) public { u256s = x; }
function updateInt8(int8 x) public { i8 = x; }
function updateAddr(address x) public { addr = x; }
function updateBytes1(bytes1 x) public { b1 = x; }
function updateMapping(S memory x) public { addrStructs[x.sa] = x; }
}

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Booleans

contract_instance.functions.updateBool(True).transact()

Unsigned Integers

contract_instance.functions.updateUint8(255).transact()
contract_instance.functions.updateUint256(2**256 - 1).transact()
contract_instance.functions.updateUintArray([1, 2, 3]).transact()

Signed Integers

contract_instance.functions.updateInt8(-128).transact()

Addresses

contract_instance.functions.updateAddr("0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000").
˓→transact()

Bytes

contract_instance.functions.updateBytes1(HexBytes(255)).transact()

Structs

contract_instance.functions.updateMapping({"sa":
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "sb": HexBytes(123)}).transact()

2.11 Middleware

Web3 manages layers of middlewares by default. They sit between the public Web3 methods and the Providers, which
handle native communication with the Ethereum client. Each layer can modify the request and/or response. Some
middlewares are enabled by default, and others are available for optional use.
Each middleware layer gets invoked before the request reaches the provider, and then processes the result after the
provider returns, in reverse order. However, it is possible for a middleware to return early from a call without the
request ever getting to the provider (or even reaching the middlewares that are in deeper layers).
When integrating middleware with your provider, please ensure you’re choosing the right version. For AsyncWeb3
users, select the version prefixed with async, such as async_attrdict_middleware. On the other hand, Web3 users
should opt for versions lacking the async prefix. If an async version isn’t listed, it implies it hasn’t been made available
yet.
More information is available in the “Internals: Middlewares” section.

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2.11.1 Default Middleware

Middlewares are added by default if you don’t add any.

Sync middlewares include:
• gas_price_strategy
• name_to_address
• attrdict
• validation
• abi
• gas_estimate
Async middlewares include:
• gas_price_strategy
• name_to_address
• attrdict
• validation
• gas_estimate
The defaults are found in default_middlewares and async_default_middlewares methods in web3/manager.
py.

AttributeDict

web3.middleware.attrdict_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_attrdict_middleware()
This middleware recursively converts any dictionary type in the result of a call to an AttributeDict.
This enables dot-syntax access, like eth.get_block('latest').number in addition to eth.
get_block('latest')['number'].

Note: Accessing a property via attribute breaks type hinting. For this reason, this feature is available as a
middleware, which may be removed if desired.

.eth Name Resolution

web3.middleware.name_to_address_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_name_to_address_middleware()
This middleware converts Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names into the address that the name points to. For
example w3.eth.send_transaction will accept .eth names in the ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields.

Note: This middleware only converts ENS names on chains where the proper ENS contracts are deployed to
support this functionality. All other cases will result in a NameNotFound error.

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Gas Price Strategy

web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_gas_price_strategy_middleware()

Warning: Gas price strategy is only supported for legacy transactions. The London fork introduced
maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas transaction parameters which should be used over gasPrice
whenever possible.

This adds a gasPrice to transactions if applicable and when a gas price strategy has been set. See Gas Price
API for information about how gas price is derived.

Buffered Gas Estimate

web3.middleware.buffered_gas_estimate_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_buffered_gas_estimate_middleware()
This adds a gas estimate to transactions if gas is not present in the transaction parameters. Sets gas to: min(w3.
eth.estimate_gas + gas_buffer, gas_limit) where the gas_buffer default is 100,000

HTTPRequestRetry

web3.middleware.http_retry_request_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_http_retry_request_middleware()
This middleware is a default specifically for HTTPProvider that retries failed requests that return the follow-
ing errors: ConnectionError, HTTPError, Timeout, TooManyRedirects. Additionally there is a whitelist
that only allows certain methods to be retried in order to not resend transactions, excluded methods are:
eth_sendTransaction, personal_signAndSendTransaction, personal_sendTransaction.

Validation

web3.middleware.validation_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_validation_middleware()
This middleware includes block and transaction validators which perform validations for transaction parameters.

2.11.2 Configuring Middleware

Middleware can be added, removed, replaced, and cleared at runtime. To make that easier, you can name the middleware
for later reference. Alternatively, you can use a reference to the middleware itself.

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Middleware Order

Think of the middleware as being layered in an onion, where you initiate a web3.py request at the outermost layer of the
onion, and the Ethereum node (like geth) receives and responds to the request inside the innermost layer of the onion.
Here is a (simplified) diagram:

New request from web3.py

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v

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``````` ```````
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```` v ````
``` ```
`. ````````Layer 1``````` `.`
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.` ``` v ``` `.
`. `.` ``` .`
`` .` `Layer 0` `` .`
`` `. ````` `````` . .`
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. `` `.` | `` . .
. `. `` JSON-RPC call .` . .`
. . `` | . `` .
`` . . v . . .
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. . . Ethereum node .` . .
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. `` `. | . . .
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Returned value in web3.py

The middlewares are maintained in Web3.middleware_onion. See below for the API.
When specifying middlewares in a list, or retrieving the list of middlewares, they will be returned in the order of outer-
most layer first and innermost layer last. In the above example, that means that w3.middleware_onion.middlewares
would return the middlewares in the order of: [2, 1, 0].
See “Internals: Middlewares” for a deeper dive to how middlewares work.

Middleware Stack API

To add or remove items in different layers, use the following API:

Web3.middleware_onion.add(middleware, name=None)
Middleware will be added to the outermost layer. That means the new middleware will modify the request first,
and the response last. You can optionally name it with any hashable object, typically a string.

>>> w3 = Web3(...)
>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware)
# or
>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware, 'gas_
˓→price_strategy')

# or
>>> async_w3 = AsyncWeb3(...)
>>> async_w3.middleware_onion.add(web3.middleware.async_gas_price_strategy_
˓→middleware, 'gas_price_strategy')

Web3.middleware_onion.inject(middleware, name=None, layer=None)

Inject a named middleware to an arbitrary layer.
The current implementation only supports injection at the innermost or outermost layers. Note that injecting to
the outermost layer is equivalent to calling Web3.middleware_onion.add() .

# Either of these will put the gas_price_strategy middleware at the innermost layer
>>> w3 = Web3(...)
>>> w3.middleware_onion.inject(web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware,␣
˓→layer=0)

# or
>>> w3.middleware_onion.inject(web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware, 'gas_
˓→price_strategy', layer=0)

# or
>>> async_w3 = AsyncWeb3(...)
>>> async_w3.middleware_onion.inject(web3.middleware.async_gas_price_strategy_
˓→middleware, 'gas_price_strategy', layer=0)

Web3.middleware_onion.remove(middleware)
Middleware will be removed from whatever layer it was in. If you added the middleware with a name, use the
name to remove it. If you added the middleware as an object, use the object again later to remove it:

>>> w3 = Web3(...)
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# or
>>> w3.middleware_onion.remove('gas_price_strategy')

Web3.middleware_onion.replace(old_middleware, new_middleware)
Middleware will be replaced from whatever layer it was in. If the middleware was named, it will continue to
have the same name. If it was un-named, then you will now reference it with the new middleware object.

>>> from web3.middleware import gas_price_strategy_middleware, attrdict_middleware

>>> w3 = Web3(...)

>>> w3.middleware_onion.replace(gas_price_strategy_middleware, attrdict_middleware)

# this is now referenced by the new middleware object, so to remove it:
>>> w3.middleware_onion.remove(attrdict_middleware)

# or, if it was named

>>> w3.middleware_onion.replace('gas_price_strategy', attrdict_middleware)

# this is still referenced by the original name, so to remove it:
>>> w3.middleware_onion.remove('gas_price_strategy')

Web3.middleware_onion.clear()
Empty all the middlewares, including the default ones.

>>> w3 = Web3(...)
>>> w3.middleware_onion.clear()
>>> assert len(w3.middleware_onion) == 0

Web3.middleware_onion.middlewares
Return all the current middlewares for the Web3 instance in the appropriate order for importing into a new Web3
instance.

>>> w3_1 = Web3(...)

# add uniquely named middleware:
>>> w3_1.middleware_onion.add(web3.middleware.gas_price_strategy_middleware, 'test_
˓→middleware')

# export middlewares from first w3 instance

>>> middlewares = w3_1.middleware_onion.middlewares

# import into second instance

>>> w3_2 = Web3(..., middlewares=middlewares)
>>> assert w3_1.middleware_onion.middlewares == w3_2.middleware_onion.middlewares
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2.11.3 Optional Middleware

Web3 ships with non-default middleware, for your custom use. In addition to the other ways of Configuring Middleware,
you can specify a list of middleware when initializing Web3, with:

Web3(middlewares=[my_middleware1, my_middleware2])

Warning: This will replace the default middlewares. To keep the default functionality, either use
middleware_onion.add() from above, or add the default middlewares to your list of new middlewares.

Below is a list of available middlewares which are not enabled by default.

Stalecheck

web3.middleware.make_stalecheck_middleware(allowable_delay)
web3.middleware.async_make_stalecheck_middleware(allowable_delay)
This middleware checks how stale the blockchain is, and interrupts calls with a failure if the blockchain is too
old.
• allowable_delay is the length in seconds that the blockchain is allowed to be behind of time.time()
Because this middleware takes an argument, you must create the middleware with a method call.

two_day_stalecheck = make_stalecheck_middleware(60 * 60 * 24 * 2)
web3.middleware_onion.add(two_day_stalecheck)

If the latest block in the blockchain is older than 2 days in this example, then the middleware will raise a
StaleBlockchain exception on every call except web3.eth.get_block().

Cache

Simple Cache Middleware

web3.middleware.construct_simple_cache_middleware(cache, rpc_whitelist, should_cache_fn)

web3.middleware.async_construct_simple_cache_middleware(cache, rpc_whitelist, should_cache_fn)
These simple cache constructor methods accept the following arguments:
Parameters
• cache – Must be an instance of the web3.utils.caching.SimpleCache class. If a cache
instance is not provided, a new instance will be created.
• rpc_whitelist – Must be an iterable, preferably a set, of the RPC methods that may be
cached. A default list is used if none is provided.
• should_cache_fn – Must be a callable with the signature fn(method, params,
response) which returns whether the response should be cached.
Constructs a middleware which will cache the return values for any RPC method in the rpc_whitelist.
Ready to use versions of this middleware can be found at web3.middleware.simple_cache_middleware and
web3.middleware.async_simple_cache_middleware. These are the equivalent of using the constructor
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Time-based Cache Middleware

web3.middleware.construct_time_based_cache_middleware(cache_class, cache_expire_seconds,
rpc_whitelist, should_cache_fn)
The time-based cache constructor method accepts the following arguments:
Parameters
• cache_class – Must be a callable which returns an object which implements the dictionary
API.
• rpc_whitelist – Must be an iterable, preferably a set, of the RPC methods that may be
cached. A default list is used if none is provided.
• should_cache_fn – Must be a callable with the signature fn(method, params,
response) which returns whether the response should be cached.

Warning: The cache_class argument is slated to change to the cache argument with web3.utils.
caching.SimpleCache instance in web3.py v7, as is the current state of the simple cache middleware above.

Constructs a middleware which will cache the return values for any RPC method in the rpc_whitelist for an
amount of time defined by cache_expire_seconds.
• cache_expire_seconds should be the number of seconds a value may remain in the cache before being
evicted.
A ready to use version of this middleware can be found at web3.middleware.
time_based_cache_middleware.
web3.middleware.construct_latest_block_based_cache_middleware(cache_class,
average_block_time_sample_size,
default_average_block_time,
rpc_whitelist, should_cache_fn)
The latest-block-based cache constructor method accepts the following arguments:
Parameters
• cache_class – Must be a callable which returns an object which implements the dictionary
API.
• rpc_whitelist – Must be an iterable, preferably a set, of the RPC methods that may be
cached. A default list is used if none is provided.
• should_cache_fn – Must be a callable with the signature fn(method, params,
response) which returns whether the response should be cached.

Warning: The cache_class argument is slated to change to the cache argument with web3.utils.
caching.SimpleCache instance in web3.py v7, as is the current state of the simple cache middleware above.

Constructs a middleware which will cache the return values for any RPC method in the rpc_whitelist for the
latest block. It avoids re-fetching the current latest block for each request by tracking the current average block
time and only requesting a new block when the last seen latest block is older than the average block time.
• average_block_time_sample_size The number of blocks which should be sampled to determine the
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• default_average_block_time The initial average block time value to use for cases where there is not
enough chain history to determine the average block time.
A ready to use version of this middleware can be found at web3.middleware.
latest_block_based_cache_middleware.

Proof of Authority

web3.middleware.geth_poa_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_geth_poa_middleware()

Note: It’s important to inject the middleware at the 0th layer of the middleware onion: w3.middleware_onion.
inject(geth_poa_middleware, layer=0)

The geth_poa_middleware is required to connect to geth --dev or the Goerli public network. It may also be needed
for other EVM compatible blockchains like Polygon or BNB Chain (Binance Smart Chain).
If the middleware is not injected at the 0th layer of the middleware onion, you may get errors like the example below
when interacting with your EVM node.

web3.exceptions.ExtraDataLengthError: The field extraData is 97 bytes, but should be

1. It is quite likely that you are connected to a POA chain. Refer to
http://web3py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/middleware.html#proof-of-authority
for more details. The full extraData is: HexBytes('...')

The easiest way to connect to a default geth --dev instance which loads the middleware is:

>>> from web3.auto.gethdev import w3

# confirm that the connection succeeded

>>> w3.client_version
'Geth/v1.7.3-stable-4bb3c89d/linux-amd64/go1.9'

This example connects to a local geth --dev instance on Linux with a unique IPC location and loads the middleware:

>>> from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider

# connect to the IPC location started with 'geth --dev --datadir ~/mynode'
>>> w3 = Web3(IPCProvider('~/mynode/geth.ipc'))

>>> from web3.middleware import geth_poa_middleware

# inject the poa compatibility middleware to the innermost layer (0th layer)
>>> w3.middleware_onion.inject(geth_poa_middleware, layer=0)

# confirm that the connection succeeded

>>> w3.client_version
'Geth/v1.7.3-stable-4bb3c89d/linux-amd64/go1.9'

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Why is geth_poa_middleware necessary?

There is no strong community consensus on a single Proof-of-Authority (PoA) standard yet. Some nodes have suc-
cessful experiments running though. One is go-ethereum (geth), which uses a prototype PoA for its development mode
and the Goerli test network.
Unfortunately, it does deviate from the yellow paper specification, which constrains the extraData field in each block
to a maximum of 32-bytes. Geth’s PoA uses more than 32 bytes, so this middleware modifies the block data a bit before
returning it.

Locally Managed Log and Block Filters

web3.middleware.local_filter_middleware()
web3.middleware.async_local_filter_middleware()

This middleware provides an alternative to ethereum node managed filters. When used, Log and Block filter logic are
handled locally while using the same web3 filter api. Filter results are retrieved using JSON-RPC endpoints that don’t
rely on server state.

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> from web3.middleware import local_filter_middleware
>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(local_filter_middleware)

# Normal block and log filter apis behave as before.

>>> block_filter = w3.eth.filter("latest")

>>> log_filter = myContract.events.myEvent.build_filter().deploy()

Signing

web3.middleware.construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(private_key_or_account)
web3.middleware.async_construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(private_key_or_account)

This middleware automatically captures transactions, signs them, and sends them as raw transactions. The from field
on the transaction, or w3.eth.default_account must be set to the address of the private key for this middleware to
have any effect.
• private_key_or_account A single private key or a tuple, list or set of private keys.
Keys can be in any of the following formats:
– An eth_account.LocalAccount object
– An eth_keys.PrivateKey object
– A raw private key as a hex string or byte string

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider)
>>> from web3.middleware import construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware
>>> from eth_account import Account
>>> acct = Account.create('KEYSMASH FJAFJKLDSKF7JKFDJ 1530')
>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(acct))
>>> w3.eth.default_account = acct.address

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Hosted nodes (like Infura or Alchemy) only support signed transactions. This often results in
send_raw_transaction being used repeatedly. Instead, we can automate this process with
construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(private_key_or_account).

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('HTTP_ENDPOINT'))
>>> from web3.middleware import construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware
>>> from eth_account import Account
>>> import os
>>> acct = w3.eth.account.from_key(os.environ.get('PRIVATE_KEY'))
>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware(acct))
>>> w3.eth.default_account = acct.address

>>> # use `eth_sendTransaction` to automatically sign and send the raw transaction
>>> w3.eth.send_transaction(tx_dict)
HexBytes('0x09511acf75918fd03de58141d2fd409af4fd6d3dce48eb3aa1656c8f3c2c5c21')

Similarly, with AsyncWeb3:

>>> from web3 import AsyncWeb3

>>> async_w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncHTTPProvider('HTTP_ENDPOINT'))
>>> from web3.middleware import async_construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware
>>> from eth_account import Account
>>> import os
>>> acct = async_w3.eth.account.from_key(os.environ.get('PRIVATE_KEY'))
>>> async_w3.middleware_onion.add(await async_construct_sign_and_send_raw_
˓→middleware(acct))

>>> async_w3.eth.default_account = acct.address

>>> # use `eth_sendTransaction` to automatically sign and send the raw transaction
>>> await async_w3.eth.send_transaction(tx_dict)
HexBytes('0x09511acf75918fd03de58141d2fd409af4fd6d3dce48eb3aa1656c8f3c2c5c21')

Now you can send a transaction from acct.address without having to build and sign each raw transaction.
When making use of this signing middleware, when sending dynamic fee transactions (recommended over legacy trans-
actions), the transaction type of 2 (or '0x2') is necessary. This is because transaction signing is validated based on
the transaction type parameter. This value defaults to '0x2' when maxFeePerGas and / or maxPriorityFeePerGas
are present as parameters in the transaction as these params imply a dynamic fee transaction. Since these values effec-
tively replace the legacy gasPrice value, do not set a gasPrice for dynamic fee transactions. Doing so will lead to
validation issues.

# dynamic fee transaction, introduced by EIP-1559:

>>> dynamic_fee_transaction = {
... 'type': '0x2', # optional - defaults to '0x2' when dynamic fee transaction␣
˓→params are present

... 'from': acct.address, # optional if w3.eth.default_account was set with acct.

˓→address

... 'to': receiving_account_address,

... 'value': 22,
... 'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000, # required for dynamic fee transactions
... 'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000, # required for dynamic fee transactions
... }
>>> w3.eth.send_transaction(dynamic_fee_transaction)

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A legacy transaction still works in the same way as it did before EIP-1559 was introduced:

>>> legacy_transaction = {
... 'to': receiving_account_address,
... 'value': 22,
... 'gasPrice': 123456, # optional - if not provided, gas_price_strategy (if␣
˓→exists) or eth_gasPrice is used

... }
>>> w3.eth.send_transaction(legacy_transaction)

2.12 Web3 Internals

Warning: This section of the documentation is for advanced users. You should probably stay away from these
APIs if you don’t know what you are doing.

The Web3 library has multiple layers of abstraction between the public api exposed by the web3 object and the backend
or node that web3 is connecting to.
• Providers are responsible for the actual communication with the blockchain such as sending JSON-RPC requests
over HTTP or an IPC socket.
• Middlewares provide hooks for monitoring and modifying requests and responses to and from the provider.
These can be global operating on all providers or specific to one provider.
• Managers provide thread safety and primitives to allow for asynchronous usage of web3.
Here are some common things you might want to do with these APIs.
• Redirect certain RPC requests to different providers such as sending all read operations to a provider backed by
Infura and all write operations to a go-ethereum node that you control.
• Transparently intercept transactions sent over eth_sendTransaction, sign them locally, and then send them
through eth_sendRawTransaction.
• Modify the response from an RPC request so that it is returned in different format such as converting all integer
values to their hexadecimal representation.
• Validate the inputs to RPC requests

2.12.1 Request Lifecycle

Each web3 RPC call passes through these layers in the following manner.

*********** ************
| Request | | Response |
*********** ************
| ^
v |
+-----------------------------+
| Manager |
+-----------------------------+
| ^
v |
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+-----------------------------+
| Global Middlewares |
+-----------------------------+
| ^
v |
+-----------------------------+
| Provider Middlewares |
+-----------------------------+
| ^
v |
+-----------------------------+
| Provider |
+-----------------------------+

You can visualize this relationship like an onion, with the Provider at the center. The request originates from the
Manager, outside of the onion, passing down through each layer of the onion until it reaches the Provider at the center.
The Provider then handles the request, producing a response which will then pass back out from the center of the onion,
through each layer until it is finally returned by the Manager.

2.12.2 Providers

A provider is responsible for all direct blockchain interactions. In most cases this means interacting with the JSON-
RPC server for an ethereum node over HTTP or an IPC socket. There is however nothing which requires providers to
be RPC based, allowing for providers designed for testing purposes which use an in-memory EVM to fulfill requests.

Writing your own Provider

Writing your own provider requires implementing two required methods as well as setting the middlewares the provider
should use.
BaseProvider.make_request(method, params)
Each provider class must implement this method. This method should return a JSON object with either a
'result' key in the case of success, or an 'error' key in the case of failure.
• method This will be a string representing the JSON-RPC method that is being called such as
'eth_sendTransaction'.
• params This will be a list or other iterable of the parameters for the JSON-RPC method being called.
BaseProvider.is_connected(show_traceback=False)
This function should return True or False depending on whether the provider should be considered connected.
For example, an IPC socket based provider should return True if the socket is open and False if the socket is
closed.
If set to True, the optional show_traceback boolean will raise a ProviderConnectionError and provide
information on why the provider should not be considered connected.
BaseProvider.middlewares
This should be an iterable of middlewares.
You can set a new list of middlewares by assigning to provider.middlewares, with the first middleware that processes
the request at the beginning of the list.

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2.12.3 Middlewares

Note: The Middleware API in web3 borrows heavily from the Django middleware API introduced in version 1.10.0

Middlewares provide a simple yet powerful api for implementing layers of business logic for web3 requests. Writing
middleware is simple.

def simple_middleware(make_request, w3):

# do one-time setup operations here

def middleware(method, params):

# do pre-processing here

# perform the RPC request, getting the response

response = make_request(method, params)

# do post-processing here

# finally return the response

return response
return middleware

It is also possible to implement middlewares as a class.

class SimpleMiddleware:
def __init__(self, make_request, w3):
self.w3 = w3
self.make_request = make_request

def __call__(self, method, params):

# do pre-processing here

# perform the RPC request, getting the response

response = self.make_request(method, params)

# do post-processing here

# finally return the response

return response

The make_request parameter is a callable which takes two positional arguments, method and params which corre-
spond to the RPC method that is being called. There is no requirement that the make_request function be called. For
example, if you were writing a middleware which cached responses for certain methods your middleware would likely
not call the make_request method, but instead get the response from some local cache.
The RequestManager object exposes the middleware_onion object to manage middlewares. It is also exposed on
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The Manager acts as a gatekeeper for the request/response lifecycle. It is unlikely that you will need to change the
Manager as most functionality can be implemented in the Middleware layer.

2.12.5 Request Processing for Persistent Connection Providers

class web3.providers.websocket.request_processor.RequestProcessor

The RequestProcessor class is responsible for the storing and syncing up of asynchronous requests to responses for a
PersistentConnectionProvider. The best example of one such provider is the WebsocketProviderV2. In order
to send a websocket message and receive a response to that particular request, PersistentConnectionProvider
instances have to match request id values to response id values coming back from the websocket connec-
tion. Any provider that does not adhere to the JSON-RPC 2.0 specification in this way will not work with
PersistentConnectionProvider instances. The specifics of how the request processor handles this are outlined
below.

Listening for Responses

Implementations of the PersistentConnectionProvider class have a message listener background task that is
called when the websocket connection is established. This task is responsible for listening for any and all mes-
sages coming in over the websocket connection and storing them in the RequestProcessor instance internal to the
PersistentConnectionProvider instance. The RequestProcessor instance is responsible for storing the mes-
sages in the correct cache, either the one-to-one cache or the one-to-many (subscriptions) queue, depending on whether
the message has a JSON-RPC id value or not.

One-To-One Requests

One-to-one requests can be summarized as any request that expects only one response back. An example is using the
eth module API to request the latest block number.

>>> async def wsV2_one_to_one_example():

... async with AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(
... WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.1:8546")
... ) as w3:
... # make a request and expect a single response returned on the same line
... latest_block_num = await w3.eth.block_number

>>> asyncio.run(wsV2_one_to_one_example())

With websockets we have to call send() and asynchronously receive responses via another means, gener-
ally by calling recv() or by iterating on the websocket connection for messages. As outlined above, the
PersistentConnectionProvider class has a message listener background task that handles the receiving of mes-
sages.
Due to this asynchronous nature of sending and receiving, in order to make one-to-one request-to-response calls work,
we have to save the request information somewhere so that, when the response is received, we can match it to the
original request that was made (i.e. the request with a matching id to the response that was received). The stored
request information is then used to process the response when it is received, piping it through the response formatters
and middlewares internal to the web3.py library.
In order to store the request information, the RequestProcessor class has an internal RequestInformation cache.
The RequestInformation class saves important information about a request.

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class web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation

method
The name of the method - e.g. “eth_subscribe”.
params
The params used when the call was made - e.g. (“newPendingTransactions”, True).
response_formatters
The formatters that will be used to process the response.
middleware_response_processors
Any middleware that processes responses that is present on the instance at the time of the request is appended
here, in order, so the response may be piped through that logic when it comes in.
subscription_id
If the request is an eth_subscribe request, rather than popping this information from the cache when
the response to the subscription call comes in (i.e. the subscription id), we save the subscription id with
the request information so that we can correctly process all subscription messages that come in with that
subscription id. For one-to-one request-to-response calls, this value is always None.
One-to-one responses, those that include a JSON-RPC id in the response object, are stored in an internal SimpleCache
class, isolated from any one-to-many responses. When the PersistentConnectionProvider is looking for a re-
sponse internally, it will expect the message listener task to store the response in this cache. Since the request id is used
in the cache key generation, it will then look for a cache key that matches the response id with that of the request id. If
the cache key is found, the response is processed and returned to the user. If the cache key is not found, the operation
will time out and raise a TimeExhausted exception. This timeout can be configured by the user when instantiating the
PersistentConnectionProvider instance via the response_timeout keyword argument.

One-To-Many Requests

One-to-many requests can be summarized by any request that expects many responses as a result of the initial request.
The only current example is the eth_subscribe request. The initial eth_subscribe request expects only one re-
sponse, the subscription id value, but it also expects to receive many eth_subscription messages if and when the
request is successful. For this reason, the original request is considered a one-to-one request so that a subscription id can
be returned to the user on the same line, but the process_subscriptions() method on the WebsocketConnection
class, the public API for interacting with the active websocket connection, is set up to receive eth_subscription
responses over an asynchronous interator pattern.

>>> async def ws_v2_subscription_example():

... async with AsyncWeb3.persistent_websocket(
... WebsocketProviderV2(f"ws://127.0.0.1:8546")
... ) as w3:
... # Subscribe to new block headers and receive the subscription_id.
... # A one-to-one call with a trigger for many responses
... subscription_id = await w3.eth.subscribe("newHeads")
...
... # Listen to the websocket for the many responses utilizing the ``w3.ws``
... # ``WebsocketConnection`` public API method ``process_subscriptions()``
... async for response in w3.ws.process_subscriptions():
... # Receive only one-to-many responses here so that we don't
... # accidentally return the response for a one-to-one request in this
... # block
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... print(f"{response}\n")
...
... if some_condition:
... # unsubscribe from new block headers, another one-to-one request
... is_unsubscribed = await w3.eth.unsubscribe(subscription_id)
... if is_unsubscribed:
... break

>>> asyncio.run(ws_v2_subscription_example())

One-to-many responses, those that do not include a JSON-RPC id in the response object, are stored in an internal
asyncio.Queue instance, isolated from any one-to-one responses. When the PersistentConnectionProvider is
looking for one-to-many responses internally, it will expect the message listener task to store these messages in this
queue. Since the order of the messages is important, the queue is a FIFO queue. The process_subscriptions()
method on the WebsocketConnection class is set up to pop messages from this queue as FIFO over an asynchronous
iterator pattern.
If the stream of messages from the websocket is not being interrupted by any other tasks, the queue will generally be in
sync with the messages coming in over the websocket. That is, the message listener will put a message in the queue and
the process_subscriptions() method will pop that message from the queue and yield control of the loop back to
the listener. This will continue until the websocket connection is closed or the user unsubscribes from the subscription.
If the stream of messages lags a bit, or the provider is not consuming messages but has subscribed to a subscription,
this internal queue may fill up with messages until it reaches its max size and then trigger a waiting asyncio.Event
until the provider begins consuming messages from the queue again. For this reason, it’s important to begin consuming
messages from the queue, via the process_subscriptions() method, as soon as a subscription is made.

2.13 ethPM

Warning: The ethPM module is no longer being maintained and will be deprecated with web3.py version 7.

2.13.1 Overview

This is a Python implementation of the Ethereum Smart Contract Packaging Specification V3, driven by discussions
in ERC 190, ERC 1123, ERC 1319.
Py-EthPM is being built as a low-level library to help developers leverage the ethPM spec. Including . . .
• Parse and validate packages.
• Construct and publish new packages.
• Provide access to contract factory classes.
• Provide access to all of a package’s deployments.
• Validate package bytecode matches compilation output.
• Validate deployed bytecode matches compilation output.
• Access to package’s dependencies.
• Native integration with compilation metadata.

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2.13.2 Package

The Package object will function much like the Contract class provided by web3. Rather than instantiating the
base class provided by ethpm, you will instead use a classmethod which generates a new Package class for a given
package.
Package objects must be instantiated with a valid web3 object.

>>> from ethpm import Package, get_ethpm_spec_dir

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> ethpm_spec_dir = get_ethpm_spec_dir()
>>> owned_manifest_path = ethpm_spec_dir / 'examples' / 'owned' / 'v3.json'
>>> OwnedPackage = Package.from_file(owned_manifest_path, w3)
>>> assert isinstance(OwnedPackage, Package)

For a closer look at how to interact with EthPM packages using web3, check out the examples page.

Properties

Each Package exposes the following properties.

class ethpm.Package(manifest: Dict[str, Any], w3: Web3, uri: str | None = None)

__repr__() → str
String readable representation of the Package.

>>> OwnedPackage.__repr__()
'<Package owned==1.0.0>'

property name: str

The name of this Package.

>>> OwnedPackage.name
'owned'

property version: str

The package version of a Package.

>>> OwnedPackage.version
'1.0.0'

property manifest_version: str

The manifest version of a Package.

>>> OwnedPackage.manifest_version
'ethpm/3'

property uri: str | None

The uri (local file_path / content-addressed URI) of a Package’s manifest.
property contract_types: List[str]
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build_dependencies
Return Dependencies instance containing the build dependencies available on this Package.
The Package class should provide access to the full dependency tree.

>>> owned_package.build_dependencies['zeppelin']
<ZeppelinPackage>

deployments
Returns a Deployments object containing all the deployment data and contract instances of a Package’s
contract_types. Automatically filters deployments to only expose those available on the current Package.
w3 instance.

package.deployments.get_instance("ContractType")

Package.w3
The Web3 instance currently set on this Package. The deployments available on a package are automatically
filtered to only contain those belonging to the currently set w3 instance.
Package.manifest
The manifest dict used to instantiate a Package.

Methods

Each Package exposes the following methods.

class ethpm.Package(manifest: Dict[str, Any], w3: Web3, uri: str | None = None)

update_w3(w3: Web3) → Package

Returns a new instance of Package containing the same manifest, but connected to a different web3 instance.

>>> new_w3 = Web3(Web3.EthereumTesterProvider())

>>> NewPackage = OwnedPackage.update_w3(new_w3)
>>> assert NewPackage.w3 == new_w3
>>> assert OwnedPackage.manifest == NewPackage.manifest

classmethod from_file(file_path: Path, w3: Web3) → Package

Returns a Package instantiated by a manifest located at the provided Path. file_path arg must be a
pathlib.Path instance. A valid Web3 instance is required to instantiate a Package.
classmethod from_uri(uri: URI, w3: Web3) → Package
Returns a Package object instantiated by a manifest located at a content-addressed URI. A valid Web3
instance is also required. URI schemes supported:
• IPFS: ipfs://Qm. . .
• HTTP: https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs/:file_sha
• Registry: erc1319://registry.eth:1/greeter?version=1.0.0

OwnedPackage = Package.from_uri('ipfs://
˓→QmbeVyFLSuEUxiXKwSsEjef7icpdTdA4kGG9BcrJXKNKUW', w3) # noqa: E501

get_contract_factory(name: ContractName) → LinkableContract

Return the contract factory for a given contract type, generated from the data available in Package.
manifest. Contract factories are accessible from the package class.

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Owned = OwnedPackage.get_contract_factory('owned')

In cases where a contract uses a library, the contract factory will have unlinked bytecode. The ethpm pack-
age ships with its own subclass of web3.contract.Contract, ethpm.contract.LinkableContract
with a few extra methods and properties related to bytecode linking.

>>> math = owned_package.contract_factories.math

>>> math.needs_bytecode_linking
True
>>> linked_math = math.link_bytecode({'MathLib': '0x1234...'})
>>> linked_math.needs_bytecode_linking
False

get_contract_instance(name: ContractName, address: Address) → Contract

Will return a Web3.contract instance generated from the contract type data available in Package.
manifest and the provided address. The provided address must be valid on the connected chain avail-
able through Package.w3.

Validation

The Package class currently verifies the following things.

• Manifests used to instantiate a Package object conform to the EthPM V3 Manifest Specification and are tightly
packed, with keys sorted alphabetically, and no trailing newline.

2.13.3 LinkableContract

Py-EthPM uses a custom subclass of Web3.contract.Contract to manage contract factories and instances
which might require bytecode linking. To create a deployable contract factory, both the contract type’s abi and
deploymentBytecode must be available in the Package’s manifest.

>>> from eth_utils import is_address

>>> from web3 import Web3
>>> from ethpm import Package, ASSETS_DIR

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> escrow_manifest_path = ASSETS_DIR / 'escrow' / 'with_bytecode_v3.json'

>>> # Try to deploy from unlinked factory

>>> EscrowPackage = Package.from_file(escrow_manifest_path, w3)
>>> EscrowFactory = EscrowPackage.get_contract_factory("Escrow")
>>> assert EscrowFactory.needs_bytecode_linking
>>> escrow_instance = EscrowFactory.constructor(w3.eth.accounts[0]).transact()
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ethpm.exceptions.BytecodeLinkingError: Contract cannot be deployed until its bytecode is␣
˓→linked.

>>> # Deploy SafeSendLib

>>> SafeSendFactory = EscrowPackage.get_contract_factory("SafeSendLib")
>>> safe_send_tx_hash = SafeSendFactory.constructor().transact()
>>> safe_send_tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(safe_send_tx_hash)
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>>> # Link Escrow factory to deployed SafeSendLib instance

>>> LinkedEscrowFactory = EscrowFactory.link_bytecode({"SafeSendLib": safe_send_tx_
˓→receipt.contractAddress})

>>> assert LinkedEscrowFactory.needs_bytecode_linking is False

>>> escrow_tx_hash = LinkedEscrowFactory.constructor(w3.eth.accounts[0]).transact()
>>> escrow_tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(escrow_tx_hash)
>>> assert is_address(escrow_tx_receipt.contractAddress)

Properties

LinkableContract.unlinked_references
A list of link reference data for the deployment bytecode, if present in the manifest data used to generate a
LinkableContract factory. Deployment bytecode link reference data must be present in a manifest in order to
generate a factory for a contract which requires bytecode linking.
LinkableContract.linked_references
A list of link reference data for the runtime bytecode, if present in the manifest data used to generate a
LinkableContract factory. If you want to use the web3 Deployer tool for a contract, then runtime bytecode
link reference data must be present in a manifest.
LinkableContract.needs_bytecode_linking
A boolean attribute used to indicate whether a contract factory has unresolved link references, which must be
resolved before a new contract instance can be deployed or instantiated at a given address.

Methods

classmethod LinkableContract.link_bytecode(attr_dict)
This method returns a newly created contract factory with the applied link references defined in the attr_dict.
This method expects attr_dict to be of the type Dict[`contract_name`: `address`] for all link refer-
ences that are unlinked.

2.13.4 URI Schemes and Backends

BaseURIBackend

Py-EthPM uses the BaseURIBackend as the parent class for all of its URI backends. To write your own backend, it
must implement the following methods.
BaseURIBackend.can_resolve_uri(uri)
Return a bool indicating whether or not this backend is capable of resolving the given URI to a manifest. A
content-addressed URI pointing to valid manifest is said to be capable of “resolving”.
BaseURIBackend.can_translate_uri(uri)
Return a bool indicating whether this backend class can translate the given URI to a corresponding content-
addressed URI. A registry URI is said to be capable of “translating” if it points to another content-addressed
URI in its respective on-chain registry.
BaseURIBackend.fetch_uri_contents(uri)
Fetch the contents stored at the provided uri, if an available backend is capable of resolving the URI. Validates
that contents stored at uri match the content hash suffixing the uri.

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IPFS

Py-EthPM has multiple backends available to fetch/pin files to IPFS. The IPFS backends rely on the now-unmaintained
ipfshttpclient library. Because of this, they are opt-in and may be installed via the ipfs web3 install extra.

$ pip install "web3[ipfs]"

The desired backend can be set via the environment variable: ETHPM_IPFS_BACKEND_CLASS.
• InfuraIPFSBackend (default)
– https://ipfs.infura.io
• IPFSGatewayBackend (temporarily deprecated)
– https://ipfs.io/ipfs/
• LocalIPFSBacked
– Connect to a local IPFS API gateway running on port 5001.
• DummyIPFSBackend
– Won’t pin/fetch files to an actual IPFS node, but mocks out this behavior.
BaseIPFSBackend.pin_assets(file_or_directory_path)
Pin asset(s) found at the given path and returns the pinned asset data.

HTTPS

Py-EthPM offers a backend to fetch files from Github, GithubOverHTTPSBackend.

A valid content-addressed Github URI must conform to the following scheme, as described in ERC1319, to be used
with this backend.

https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs/:file_sha

create_content_addressed_github_uri(uri)
This util function will return a content-addressed URI, as defined by Github’s blob scheme. To generate a content-
addressed URI for any manifest stored on github, this function requires accepts a Github API uri that follows the
following scheme.

https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:path/:to/manifest.json

>>> from ethpm.uri import create_content_addressed_github_uri

>>> owned_github_api_uri = "https://api.github.com/repos/ethpm/ethpm-spec/contents/

˓→examples/owned/1.0.0.json"

>>> content_addressed_uri = "https://api.github.com/repos/ethpm/ethpm-spec/git/blobs/

˓→8f9dc767d4c8b31fec4a08d9c0858d4f37b83180"

>>> actual_blob_uri = create_content_addressed_github_uri(owned_github_api_uri)

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Registry URIs

The URI to lookup a package from a registry should follow the following format. (subject to change as the Registry
Contract Standard makes its way through the EIP process)

scheme://address:chain_id/package_name@version

• URI must be a string type

• scheme: (required) ethpm or erc1319
• address: (required) Must be a valid ENS domain or a valid checksum address pointing towards a registry
contract.
• chain_id: Chain ID of the chain on which the registry lives. Defaults to Mainnet. Supported chains include. . .
• 1: Mainnet
• 5: Goerli
• 11155111: Sepolia
• package-name: Must conform to the package-name as specified in the EthPM-Spec.
• version: The URI escaped version string, should conform to the semver version numbering specification.
Examples. . .
• ethpm://packages.zeppelinos.eth/[email protected]
• ethpm://0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD:1/[email protected]
To specify a specific asset within a package, you can namespace the target asset.
• ethpm://maker.snakecharmers.eth:1/[email protected]/sources/token.sol
• ethpm://maker.snakecharmers.eth:1/[email protected]/contractTypes/DSToken/abi
• ethpm://maker.snakecharmers.eth:1/[email protected]/deployments/mainnet/dai

2.13.5 Builder

The manifest Builder is a tool designed to help construct custom manifests. The builder is still under active development,
and can only handle simple use-cases for now.

To create a simple manifest

For all manifests, the following ingredients are required.

build(
{},
package_name(str),
version(str),
manifest_version(str), ...,
)
# Or
build(
init_manifest(package_name: str, version: str, manifest_version: str="ethpm/3")
...,
)

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The builder (i.e. build()) expects a dict as the first argument. This dict can be empty, or populated if you want to
extend an existing manifest.

>>> from ethpm.tools.builder import *

>>> expected_manifest = {
... "name": "owned",
... "version": "1.0.0",
... "manifest": "ethpm/3"
... }
>>> base_manifest = {"name": "owned"}
>>> built_manifest = build(
... {},
... package_name("owned"),
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
... version("1.0.0"),
... )
>>> extended_manifest = build(
... base_manifest,
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
... version("1.0.0"),
... )
>>> assert built_manifest == expected_manifest
>>> assert extended_manifest == expected_manifest

With init_manifest(), which populates “manifest” with “ethpm/3” (the only supported EthPM specification ver-
sion), unless provided with an alternative “version”.

>>> build(
... init_manifest("owned", "1.0.0"),
... )
{'name': 'owned', 'version': '1.0.0', 'manifest': 'ethpm/3'}

To return a Package

build(
...,
as_package(w3: Web3),
)

By default, the manifest builder returns a dict representing the manifest. To return a Package instance (instantiated
with the generated manifest) from the builder, add the as_package() builder function with a valid web3 instance to
the end of the builder.

>>> from ethpm import Package

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.EthereumTesterProvider())
>>> built_package = build(
... {},
... package_name("owned"),
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
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... version("1.0.0"),
... as_package(w3),
... )
>>> assert isinstance(built_package, Package)

To validate a manifest

build(
...,
validate(),
)

By default, the manifest builder does not perform any validation that the generated fields are correctly
formatted. There are two ways to validate that the built manifest conforms to the EthPM V3 Specification.
• Return a Package, which automatically runs validation.
• Add the validate() function to the end of the manifest builder.

>>> valid_manifest = build(

... {},
... package_name("owned"),
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
... version("1.0.0"),
... validate(),
... )
>>> assert valid_manifest == {"name": "owned", "manifest": "ethpm/3", "version": "1.0.0"}
>>> invalid_manifest = build(
... {},
... package_name("_InvalidPkgName"),
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
... version("1.0.0"),
... validate(),
... )
Traceback (most recent call last):
ethpm.exceptions.EthPMValidationError: Manifest invalid for schema version 2. Reason: '_
˓→InvalidPkgName' does not match '^[a-z][-a-z0-9]{0,255}$'

To write a manifest to disk

build(
...,
write_to_disk(
manifest_root_dir: Optional[Path],
manifest_name: Optional[str],
prettify: Optional[bool],
),
)

Writes the active manifest to disk. Will not overwrite an existing manifest with the same name and root directory.

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Defaults - Writes manifest to current working directory (as returned by os.getcwd()) unless a Path is provided as
manifest_root_dir. - Writes manifest with a filename of <version>.json unless desired manifest name (which must
end in “.json”) is provided as manifest_name. - Writes the minified manifest version to disk unless prettify is set to
True

>>> from pathlib import Path

>>> import tempfile
>>> p = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp("temp"))
>>> build(
... {},
... package_name("owned"),
... manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
... version("1.0.0"),
... write_to_disk(manifest_root_dir=p, manifest_name="manifest.json", prettify=True),
... )
{'name': 'owned', 'manifest': 'ethpm/3', 'version': '1.0.0'}
>>> with open(str(p / "manifest.json")) as f:
... actual_manifest = f.read()
>>> print(actual_manifest)
{
"manifest": "ethpm/3",
"name": "owned",
"version": "1.0.0"
}

To pin a manifest to IPFS

build(
...,
pin_to_ipfs(
backend: BaseIPFSBackend,
prettify: Optional[bool],
),
)

Pins the active manifest to disk. Must be the concluding function in a builder set since it returns the IPFS pin data
rather than returning the manifest for further processing.

To add meta fields

build(
...,
description(str),
license(str),
authors(*args: str),
keywords(*args: str),
links(*kwargs: str),
...,
)

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>>> BASE_MANIFEST = {"name": "owned", "manifest": "ethpm/3", "version": "1.0.0"}

>>> expected_manifest = {
... "name": "owned",
... "manifest": "ethpm/3",
... "version": "1.0.0",
... "meta": {
... "authors": ["Satoshi", "Nakamoto"],
... "description": "An awesome package.",
... "keywords": ["auth"],
... "license": "MIT",
... "links": {
... "documentation": "www.readthedocs.com/...",
... "repo": "www.github.com/...",
... "website": "www.website.com",
... }
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... authors("Satoshi", "Nakamoto"),
... description("An awesome package."),
... keywords("auth"),
... license("MIT"),
... links(documentation="www.readthedocs.com/...", repo="www.github.com/...",␣
˓→website="www.website.com"),

... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

Compiler Output

To build a more complex manifest for solidity contracts, it is required that you provide standard-json output from the
solidity compiler. Or for a more convenient experience, use the EthPM CLI.
Here is an example of how to compile the contracts and generate the standard-json output. More information can be
found in the Solidity Compiler docs.

solc --allow-paths <path-to-contract-directory> --standard-json < standard-json-input.

˓→json > owned_compiler_output.json

Sample standard-json-input.json

{
"language": "Solidity",
"sources": {
"Contract.sol": {
"urls": ["<path-to-contract>"]
}
},
"settings": {
"outputSelection": {
"*": {
"*": ["abi", "evm.bytecode.object"]
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}
}
}
}

The compiler_output as used in the following examples is the entire value of the contracts key of the solc output,
which contains compilation data for all compiled contracts.

To add a source

# To inline a source
build(
...,
inline_source(
contract_name: str,
compiler_output: Dict[str, Any],
package_root_dir: Optional[Path]
),
...,
)
# To pin a source
build(
...,
pin_source(
contract_name: str,
compiler_output: Dict[str, Any],
ipfs_backend: BaseIPFSBackend,
package_root_dir: Optional[Path]
),
...,
)

There are two ways to include a contract source in your manifest.

Both strategies require that either . . .
• The current working directory is set to the package root directory or
• The package root directory is provided as an argument (package_root_dir)
To inline the source code directly in the manifest, use inline_source() or source_inliner() (to inline multiple
sources from the same compiler_output), which requires the contract name and compiler output as args.

Note: output_v3.json below is expected to be the standard-json output generated by the solidity compiler as
described here. The output must contain the abi and bytecode objects from compilation.

>>> import json

>>> from ethpm import ASSETS_DIR, get_ethpm_spec_dir
>>> ethpm_spec_dir = get_ethpm_spec_dir()
>>> owned_dir = ethpm_spec_dir / "examples" / "owned" / "contracts"
>>> compiler_output = json.loads((ASSETS_DIR / "owned" / "output_v3.json").read_text())[
˓→'contracts']

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>>> expected_manifest = {
... "name": "owned",
... "version": "1.0.0",
... "manifest": "ethpm/3",
... "sources": {
... "./Owned.sol": {
... "content": """// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT\npragma solidity ^0.6.8;\n\
˓→ncontract Owned """

... """{\n address owner;\n \n modifier onlyOwner { require(msg.sender ==␣

˓→owner); _; }"""

... """\n\n constructor() public {\n owner = msg.sender;\n }\n}""",

... "type": "solidity",
... "installPath": "./Owned.sol"
... }
... }
... }
>>> # With `inline_source()`
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... inline_source("Owned", compiler_output, package_root_dir=owned_dir),
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest
>>> # With `source_inliner()` for multiple sources from the same compiler output
>>> inliner = source_inliner(compiler_output, package_root_dir=owned_dir)
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... inliner("Owned"),
... # inliner("other_source"), etc...
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

To include the source as a content-addressed URI, Py-EthPM can pin your source via the Infura IPFS API. As well
as the contract name and compiler output, this function requires that you provide the desired IPFS backend to pin the
contract sources.

>>> import json

>>> from ethpm import ASSETS_DIR, get_ethpm_spec_dir
>>> from ethpm.backends.ipfs import get_ipfs_backend
>>> ethpm_spec_dir = get_ethpm_spec_dir()
>>> owned_dir = ethpm_spec_dir / "examples" / "owned" / "contracts"
>>> compiler_output = json.loads((ASSETS_DIR / "owned" / "output_v3.json").read_text())[
˓→'contracts']

>>> ipfs_backend = get_ipfs_backend()

>>> expected_manifest = {
... "name": "owned",
... "version": "1.0.0",
... "manifest": "ethpm/3",
... "sources": {
... "./Owned.sol": {
... "installPath": "./Owned.sol",
... "type": "solidity",
... "urls": ["ipfs://QmU8QUSt56ZoBDJgjjXvAZEPro9LmK1m2gjVG5Q4s9x29W"]
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... }
... }
... }
>>> # With `pin_source()`
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... pin_source("Owned", compiler_output, ipfs_backend, package_root_dir=owned_dir),
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest
>>> # With `source_pinner()` for multiple sources from the same compiler output
>>> pinner = source_pinner(compiler_output, ipfs_backend, package_root_dir=owned_dir)
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... pinner("Owned"),
... # pinner("other_source"), etc
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

To add a contract type

build(
...,
contract_type(
contract_name: str,
compiler_output: Dict[str, Any],
alias: Optional[str],
abi: Optional[bool],
compiler: Optional[bool],
contract_type: Optional[bool],
deployment_bytecode: Optional[bool],
devdoc: Optional[bool],
userdoc: Optional[bool],
source_id: Optional[bool],
runtime_bytecode: Optional[bool]
),
...,
)

The default behavior of the manifest builder’s contract_type() function is to populate the manifest with all of the
contract type data found in the compiler_output.
>>> expected_manifest = {
... 'name': 'owned',
... 'manifest': 'ethpm/3',
... 'version': '1.0.0',
... 'compilers': [
... {'name': 'solc', 'version': '0.6.8+commit.0bbfe453', 'settings': {'optimize':␣
˓→True}, 'contractTypes': ['Owned']}

... ],
... 'contractTypes': {
... 'Owned': {
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... 'abi': [{'inputs': [], 'stateMutability': 'nonpayable', 'type': 'constructor'}
˓→],

... 'deploymentBytecode': {
... 'bytecode':
˓→'0x6080604052348015600f57600080fd5b50600080546001600160a01b03191633179055603f80602f6000396000f3fe60806

˓→'

... },
... 'sourceId': 'Owned.sol',
... 'devdoc': {'methods': {}},
... 'userdoc': {'methods': {}}
... }
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... contract_type("Owned", compiler_output)
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

To select only certain contract type data to be included in your manifest, provide the desired fields as True
keyword arguments. The following fields can be specified for inclusion in the manifest . . .
• abi
• compiler
• deployment_bytecode
• runtime_bytecode
• devdoc
• userdoc
• source_id

>>> expected_manifest = {
... 'name': 'owned',
... 'manifest': 'ethpm/3',
... 'version': '1.0.0',
... 'contractTypes': {
... 'Owned': {
... 'abi': [{'inputs': [], 'stateMutability': 'nonpayable', 'type': 'constructor'}
˓→],

... }
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... contract_type("Owned", compiler_output, abi=True)
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

If you would like to alias your contract type, provide the desired alias as a kwarg. This will automatically include
the original contract type in a contractType field. Unless specific contract type fields are provided as kwargs,
contractType will still default to including all available contract type data found in the compiler output.

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>>> expected_manifest = {
... 'name': 'owned',
... 'manifest': 'ethpm/3',
... 'version': '1.0.0',
... 'contractTypes': {
... 'OwnedAlias': {
... 'abi': [{'inputs': [], 'stateMutability': 'nonpayable', 'type': 'constructor'}
˓→],

... 'contractType': 'Owned'

... }
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... contract_type("Owned", compiler_output, alias="OwnedAlias", abi=True)
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

To add a deployment

build(
...,
deployment(
block_uri,
contract_instance,
contract_type,
address,
transaction=None,
block=None,
deployment_bytecode=None,
runtime_bytecode=None,
compiler=None,
),
...,
)

There are two strategies for adding a deployment to your manifest.

deployment(block_uri, contract_instance, contract_type, address, transaction=None, block=None,
deployment_bytecode=None, runtime_bytecode=None, compiler=None)

This is the simplest builder function for adding a deployment to a manifest. All arguments require keywords. This
builder function requires a valid block_uri, it’s up to the user to be sure that multiple chain URIs representing the
same blockchain are not included in the “deployments” object keys.
runtime_bytecode, deployment_bytecode and compiler must all be validly formatted dicts according to the
EthPM Spec. If your contract has link dependencies, be sure to include them in the bytecode objects.

>>> expected_manifest = {
... 'name': 'owned',
... 'manifest': 'ethpm/3',
... 'version': '1.0.0',
... 'deployments': {
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... 'blockchain://1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234/
˓→block/1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef': {

... 'Owned': {
... 'contractType': 'Owned',
... 'address': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
... }
... }
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... deployment(
... block_uri='blockchain://
˓→1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234/block/

˓→1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',

... contract_instance='Owned',
... contract_type='Owned',
... address='0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
... ),
... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

deployment_type(contract_instance, contract_type, deployment_bytecode=None, runtime_bytecode=None,

compiler=None)

This builder function simplifies adding the same contract type deployment across multiple chains. It requires both
a contract_instance and contract_type argument (in many cases these are the same, though contract_type
must always match its correspondent in the manifest’s “contract_types”) and all arguments require keywords.
runtime_bytecode, deployment_bytecode and compiler must all be validly formatted dicts according to the
EthPM Spec. If your contract has link dependencies, be sure to include them in the bytecode objects.

owned_type = deployment_type(contract_instance="Owned", contract_type="Owned")

escrow_type = deployment_type(
contract_instance = "Escrow",
contract_type = "Escrow",
deployment_bytecode = {
"bytecode":
˓→"0x608060405234801561001057600080fd5b50604051602080610453833981016040818152915160028190553360008181526

˓→"

},
runtime_bytecode = {
"bytecode":
˓→"0x6080604052600436106100775763ffffffff7c0100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000600

˓→"

},
compiler = {
"name": "solc",
"version": "0.4.24+commit.e67f0147.Emscripten.clang",
"settings": {
"optimize": True
}
}
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)
manifest = build(
package_name("escrow"),
version("1.0.0"),
manifest_version("ethpm/3"),
owned_type(
block_uri='blockchain://
˓→abcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcd/block/

˓→1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',

address=owned_testnet_address,
),
owned_type(
block_uri='blockchain://
˓→1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234/block/

˓→1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',

address=owned_mainnet_address,
transaction=owned_mainnet_transaction,
block=owned_mainnet_block,
),
escrow_type(
block_uri='blockchain://
˓→abcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcdefabcd/block/

˓→1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',

address=escrow_testnet_address,
),
escrow_type(
block_uri='blockchain://
˓→1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234/block/

˓→1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',

address=escrow_mainnet_address,
transaction=escrow_mainnet_transaction,
),
)

To add a build dependency

build(
...,
build_dependency(
package_name,
uri,
),
...,
)

build_dependency(package_name, uri)

To add a build dependency to your manifest, just provide the package’s name and a supported, content-addressed URI.

>>> expected_manifest = {
... 'name': 'owned',
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... 'manifest': 'ethpm/3',
... 'version': '1.0.0',
... 'buildDependencies': {
... 'owned': 'ipfs://QmbeVyFLSuEUxiXKwSsEjef6icpdTdA4kGG9BcrJXKNKUW',
... }
... }
>>> built_manifest = build(
... BASE_MANIFEST,
... build_dependency('owned', 'ipfs://QmbeVyFLSuEUxiXKwSsEjef6icpdTdA4kGG9BcrJXKNKUW
˓→'),

... )
>>> assert expected_manifest == built_manifest

2.13.6 Checker

The manifest Checker is a tool designed to help validate manifests according to the natural language spec (link).

To validate a manifest

>>> from ethpm.tools.checker import check_manifest

>>> basic_manifest = {"name": "example", "version": "1.0.0", "manifest": "ethpm/3"}

>>> check_manifest(basic_manifest)
{'meta': "Manifest missing a suggested 'meta' field.", 'sources': 'Manifest is missing a␣
˓→sources field, which defines a source tree that should comprise the full source tree␣

˓→necessary to recompile the contracts contained in this release.', 'contractTypes':

˓→"Manifest does not contain any 'contractTypes'. Packages should only include contract␣

˓→types that can be found in the source files for this package. Packages should not␣

˓→include contract types from dependencies. Packages should not include abstract␣

˓→contracts in the contract types section of a release.", 'compilers': 'Manifest is␣

˓→missing a suggested `compilers` field.'}

2.14 Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is analogous to the Domain Name Service. It enables users and developers to use
human-friendly names in place of error-prone hexadecimal addresses, content hashes, and more.
The ens module is included with web3.py. It provides an interface to look up domains and addresses, add resolver
records, or get and set metadata.

Note: web3.py v6.6.0 introduced ENS name normalization standard ENSIP-15. This update to ENS name validation
and normalization won’t affect ~99% of names but may prevent invalid names from being created and from interacting
with the ENS contracts via web3.py. We feel strongly that this change, though breaking, is in the best interest of our
users as it ensures compatibility with the latest ENS standards.

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2.14.1 Setup

Create an ENS object (named ns below) in one of three ways:

1. Automatic detection
2. Specify an instance of a provider
3. From an existing web3.Web3 object

# automatic detection
from ens.auto import ns

# or, with a provider

from web3 import IPCProvider
from ens import ENS

provider = IPCProvider(...)
ns = ENS(provider)

# or, with a w3 instance

# Note: This inherits the w3 middlewares from the w3 instance and adds a stalecheck␣
˓→middleware to the middleware onion.

# It also inherits the provider and codec from the w3 instance, as well as the ``strict_
˓→bytes_type_checking`` flag value.

from ens import ENS

w3 = Web3(...)
ns = ENS.from_web3(w3)

Asynchronous support is available via the AsyncENS module:

from ens import AsyncENS

ns = AsyncENS(provider)

Note that an ens module instance is also available on the w3 instance. The first time it’s used, web3.py will create the
ens instance using ENS.from_web3(w3) or AsyncENS.from_web3(w3) as appropriate.

# instantiate w3 instance
from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider
w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))

# use the module

w3.ens.address('ethereum.eth')

ens.strict_bytes_type_checking
The ENS instance has a strict_bytes_type_checking flag that toggles the flag with the same name on the
Web3 instance attached to the ENS instance. You may disable the stricter bytes type checking that is loaded by
default using this flag. For more examples, see Disabling Strict Checks for Bytes Types
If instantiating a standalone ENS instance using ENS.from_web3(), the ENS instance will inherit the value of
the flag on the Web3 instance at time of instantiation.

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> from ens import ENS
>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())
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>>> assert w3.strict_bytes_type_checking # assert strict by default

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
False

>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = False

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1') # zero-padded, so encoded to: b'1\x00'
True

>>> ns = ENS.from_web3(w3)
>>> # assert inherited from w3 at time of instantiation via ENS.from_web3()
>>> assert ns.strict_bytes_type_checking is False
>>> ns.w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
True

>>> # assert these are now separate instances

>>> ns.strict_bytes_type_checking = True
>>> ns.w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
False

>>> # assert w3 flag value remains

>>> assert w3.strict_bytes_type_checking is False
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
True

However, if accessing the ENS class via the Web3 instance as a module (w3.ens), since all modules use the same
Web3 object reference under the hood (the parent w3 object), changing the strict_bytes_type_checking flag
value on w3 also changes the flag state for w3.ens.w3 and all modules.

>>> from web3 import Web3, EthereumTesterProvider

>>> w3 = Web3(EthereumTesterProvider())

>>> assert w3.strict_bytes_type_checking # assert strict by default

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
False

>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = False

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1') # zero-padded, so encoded to: b'1\x00'
True

>>> assert w3 == w3.ens.w3 # assert same object

>>> assert not w3.ens.w3.strict_bytes_type_checking
>>> w3.ens.w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
True

>>> # sanity check on eth module as well

>>> assert not w3.eth.w3.strict_bytes_type_checking
>>> w3.eth.w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
True

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2.14.2 Usage

Name Info

Get the Address for an ENS Name

from ens.auto import ns

eth_address = ns.address('ens.eth')
assert eth_address == '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7'

The ENS module has no opinion as to which TLD (Top Level Domain) you can use, but will not infer a TLD if it is
not provided with the name.

Multichain Address Resolution

ENSIP-9 introduced multichain address resolution, allowing users to resolve addresses from different chains, specified
by the coin type index from SLIP44. The address() method on the ENS class supports multichain address resolution
via the coin_type keyword argument.

from ens.auto import ns

eth_address = ns.address('ens.eth', coin_type=60) # ETH is coin_type 60
assert eth_address == '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7'

Get the ENS Name for an Address

domain = ns.name('0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7')

# name() also accepts the bytes version of the address

assert ns.name(b'\xfe\x89\xccz\xbb,A\x83h:\xb7\x16S\xc4\xcd\xc9\xb0-D\xb7') == domain

# confirm that the name resolves back to the address that you looked up:
assert ns.address(domain) == '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7'

Note: For accuracy, and as a recommendation from the ENS documentation on reverse resolution, the ENS module
now verifies that the forward resolution matches the address with every call to get the name() for an address. This is the
only sure way to know whether the reverse resolution is correct. Anyone can claim any name, only forward resolution
implies that the owner of the name gave their stamp of approval.

Get the Owner of a Name

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Set Up Your Name and Address

Link a Name to an Address

You can set up your name so that address() will show the address it points to. In order to do so, you must already be
the owner of the domain (or its parent).

ns.setup_address('ens.eth', '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7')

In the common case where you want to point the name to the owning address, you can skip the address.

ns.setup_address('ens.eth')

You can claim arbitrarily deep subdomains.

ns.setup_address('supreme.executive.power.derives.from.a.mandate.from.the.masses.ens.eth
˓→')

# wait for the transaction to be mined, then:

assert (
ns.address('supreme.executive.power.derives.from.a.mandate.from.the.masses.ens.eth')
== '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7'
)

Warning: Gas costs scale up with the number of subdomains!

Multichain Address Support

ENSIP-9 introduced multichain address resolution, allowing users to resolve addresses from different chains, specified
by the coin type index from SLIP44. The setup_address() method on the ENS class supports multichain address
setup via the coin_type keyword argument.

from ens.auto import ns

ns.setup_address('ens.eth', coin_type=60) # ETH is coin_type 60
assert ns.address('ens.eth', coin_type=60) == '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7
˓→'

Link an Address to a Name

You can set up your address so that name() will show the name that points to it.
This is like Caller ID. It enables you and others to take an account and determine what name points to it. Sometimes
this is referred to as “reverse” resolution. The ENS Reverse Resolver is used for this functionality.

ns.setup_name('ens.eth', '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7')

If you don’t supply the address, setup_name() will assume you want the address returned by address().

ns.setup_name('ens.eth')

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If the name doesn’t already point to an address, setup_name() will call setup_address() for you.
Wait for the transaction to be mined, then:

assert ns.name('0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7') == 'ens.eth'

Text Records

Set Text Metadata for an ENS Record

As the owner of an ENS record, you can add text metadata. A list of supported fields can be found in the ENS docu-
mentation. You’ll need to setup the address first, and then the text can be set:

ns.setup_address('ens.eth', '0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7')
ns.set_text('ens.eth', 'url', 'https://example.com')

A transaction dictionary can be passed as the last argument if desired:

transaction_dict = {'from': '0x123...'}

ns.set_text('ens.eth', 'url', 'https://example.com', transaction_dict)

If the transaction dictionary is not passed, sensible defaults will be used, and if a transaction dictionary is passed but
does not have a from value, the default will be the owner.

Read Text Metadata for an ENS Record

Anyone can read the data from an ENS Record:

url = ns.get_text('ens.eth', 'url')

assert url == 'https://example.com'

Working With Resolvers

Get the Resolver for an ENS Record

You can get the resolver for an ENS name via the resolver() method.

>>> resolver = ns.resolver('ens.eth')

>>> resolver.address
'0x5B2063246F2191f18F2675ceDB8b28102e957458'

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The ENS module supports Wildcard Resolution for resolvers that implement the ExtendedResolver interface as de-
scribed in ENSIP-10. Resolvers that implement the extended resolver interface should return True when calling the
supportsInterface() function with the extended resolver interface id "0x9061b923" and should resolve subdo-
mains to a unique address.

2.15 Examples

• Looking up blocks
• Getting the latest block
• Checking the balance of an account
• Converting currency denominations
• Sending transactions
• Looking up transactions
• Looking up receipts
• Working with Contracts
– Interacting with existing contracts
– Deploying new contracts
• Working with Contracts via ethPM
• Working with an ERC20 Token Contract
– Creating the contract factory
– Querying token metadata
– Query account balances
– Sending tokens
– Creating an approval for external transfers
– Performing an external transfer
• CCIP Read support for offchain lookup
• Contract Unit Tests in Python
• Using Infura Goerli Node
• Adjusting log levels
• Advanced example: Fetching all token transfer events
– eth_getLogs limitations
– Example code

Here are some common things you might want to do with web3.

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2.15.1 Looking up blocks

Blocks can be looked up by either their number or hash using the web3.eth.get_block API. Block hashes should be
in their hexadecimal representation. Block numbers

# get a block by number

>>> web3.eth.get_block(12345)
{
'author': '0xad5C1768e5974C231b2148169da064e61910f31a',
'difficulty': 735512610763,
'extraData': '0x476574682f76312e302e302f6c696e75782f676f312e342e32',
'gasLimit': 5000,
'gasUsed': 0,
'hash': '0x767c2bfb3bdee3f78676c1285cd757bcd5d8c272cef2eb30d9733800a78c0b6d',
'logsBloom':
˓→'0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

˓→',

'miner': '0xad5C1768e5974C231b2148169da064e61910f31a',
'mixHash': '0x31d9ec7e3855aeba37fd92aa1639845e70b360a60f77f12eff530429ef8cfcba',
'nonce': '0x549f882c5f356f85',
'number': 12345,
'parentHash': '0x4b3c1d7e65a507b62734feca1ee9f27a5379e318bd52ae62de7ba67dbeac66a3',
'receiptsRoot': '0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421',
'sealFields': ['0x31d9ec7e3855aeba37fd92aa1639845e70b360a60f77f12eff530429ef8cfcba',
'0x549f882c5f356f85'],
'sha3Uncles': '0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347',
'size': 539,
'stateRoot': '0xca495e22ed6b88c61714d129dbc8c94f5bf966ac581c09a57c0a72d0e55e7286',
'timestamp': 1438367030,
'totalDifficulty': 3862140487204603,
'transactions': [],
'transactionsRoot':
˓→'0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421',

'uncles': [],
}

# get a block by it's hash

>>> web3.eth.get_block(
˓→'0x767c2bfb3bdee3f78676c1285cd757bcd5d8c272cef2eb30d9733800a78c0b6d')

{...}

2.15.2 Getting the latest block

You can also retrieve the latest block using the string 'latest' in the web3.eth.get_block API.

>>> web3.eth.get_block('latest')
{...}

If you want to know the latest block number you can use the web3.eth.block_number property.

>>> web3.eth.block_number
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2.15.3 Checking the balance of an account

To find the amount of ether owned by an account, use the get_balance() method. At the time of writing, the account
with the most ether has a public address of 0x742d35Cc6634C0532925a3b844Bc454e4438f44e.

>>> web3.eth.get_balance('0x742d35Cc6634C0532925a3b844Bc454e4438f44e')
3841357360894980500000001

Note that this number is not denominated in ether, but instead in the smallest unit of value in Ethereum, wei. Read on
to learn how to convert that number to ether.

2.15.4 Converting currency denominations

Web3 can help you convert between denominations. The following denominations are supported.

denomination amount in wei

wei 1
kwei 1000
babbage 1000
femtoether 1000
mwei 1000000
lovelace 1000000
picoether 1000000
gwei 1000000000
shannon 1000000000
nanoether 1000000000
nano 1000000000
szabo 1000000000000
microether 1000000000000
micro 1000000000000
finney 1000000000000000
milliether 1000000000000000
milli 1000000000000000
ether 1000000000000000000
kether 1000000000000000000000
grand 1000000000000000000000
mether 1000000000000000000000000
gether 1000000000000000000000000000
tether 1000000000000000000000000000000

Picking up from the previous example, the largest account contained 3841357360894980500000001 wei. You can use
the from_wei() method to convert that balance to ether (or another denomination).

>>> web3.from_wei(3841357360894980500000001, 'ether')

Decimal('3841357.360894980500000001')

To convert back to wei, you can use the inverse function, to_wei(). Note that Python’s default floating point precision
is insufficient for this use case, so it’s necessary to cast the value to a Decimal if it isn’t already.

>>> from decimal import Decimal

>>> web3.to_wei(Decimal('3841357.360894980500000001'), 'ether')
3841357360894980500000001

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Best practice: If you need to work with multiple currency denominations, default to wei. A typical workflow may
require a conversion from some denomination to wei, then from wei to whatever you need.

>>> web3.to_wei(Decimal('0.000000005'), 'ether')

5000000000
>>> web3.from_wei(5000000000, 'gwei')
Decimal('5')

2.15.5 Sending transactions

There are a few options for sending transactions:

• send_transaction()
• send_raw_transaction()
• Calling transact() on a contract function
• Utilizing construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware()
For more context, see the Sending Transactions Guide.

2.15.6 Looking up transactions

You can look up transactions using the web3.eth.get_transaction function.

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060')

{
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd',
'blockNumber': 46147,
'condition': None,
'creates': None,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gas': 21000,
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': '0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',
'input': '0x',
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
'networkId': None,
'nonce': 0,
'publicKey':
˓→'0x376fc429acc35e610f75b14bc96242b13623833569a5bb3d72c17be7e51da0bb58e48e2462a59897cead8ab88e78709f9d2

˓→',

'r': '0x88ff6cf0fefd94db46111149ae4bfc179e9b94721fffd821d38d16464b3f71d0',
'raw':
˓→'0xf86780862d79883d2000825208945df9b87991262f6ba471f09758cde1c0fc1de734827a69801ca088ff6cf0fefd94db461

˓→',

's': '0x45e0aff800961cfce805daef7016b9b675c137a6a41a548f7b60a3484c06a33a',
'standardV': '0x1',
'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionIndex': 0,
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'value': 31337,
}

If no transaction for the given hash can be found, this method will throw web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound.

2.15.7 Looking up receipts

Transaction receipts can be retrieved using the web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt API.

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060')

{
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd',
'blockNumber': 46147,
'contractAddress': None,
'cumulativeGasUsed': 21000,
'gasUsed': 21000,
'logs': [],
'logsBloom':
˓→'0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

˓→',

'root': '0x96a8e009d2b88b1483e6941e6812e32263b05683fac202abc622a3e31aed1957',
'transactionHash':
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',

'transactionIndex': 0,
}

If no transaction for the given hash can be found, this method will throw web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound.

2.15.8 Working with Contracts

Interacting with existing contracts

In order to use an existing contract, you’ll need its deployed address and its ABI. Both can be found using block
explorers, like Etherscan. Once you instantiate a contract instance, you can read data and execute transactions.

# Configure w3, e.g., w3 = Web3(...)

address = '0x1f9840a85d5aF5bf1D1762F925BDADdC4201F988'
abi = '[{"inputs":[{"internalType":"address","name":"account","type":"address"},{
˓→"internalType":"address","name":"minter_","type":"address"},...'

contract_instance = w3.eth.contract(address=address, abi=abi)

# read state:
contract_instance.functions.storedValue().call()
# 42

# update state:
tx_hash = contract_instance.functions.updateValue(43).transact()

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Deploying new contracts

Given the following solidity source file stored at contract.sol.

contract StoreVar {

uint8 public _myVar;

event MyEvent(uint indexed _var);

function setVar(uint8 _var) public {

_myVar = _var;
emit MyEvent(_var);
}

function getVar() public view returns (uint8) {

return _myVar;
}

The following example demonstrates a few things:

• Compiling a contract from a sol file.
• Estimating gas costs of a transaction.
• Transacting with a contract function.
• Waiting for a transaction receipt to be mined.
import sys
import time
import pprint

from web3.providers.eth_tester import EthereumTesterProvider

from web3 import Web3
from eth_tester import PyEVMBackend
from solcx import compile_source

def compile_source_file(file_path):
with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
source = f.read()

return compile_source(source,output_values=['abi','bin'])

def deploy_contract(w3, contract_interface):

tx_hash = w3.eth.contract(
abi=contract_interface['abi'],
bytecode=contract_interface['bin']).constructor().transact()

address = w3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)['contractAddress']
return address

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contract_source_path = 'contract.sol'
compiled_sol = compile_source_file('contract.sol')

contract_id, contract_interface = compiled_sol.popitem()

address = deploy_contract(w3, contract_interface)

print(f'Deployed {contract_id} to: {address}\n')

store_var_contract = w3.eth.contract(address=address, abi=contract_interface["abi"])

gas_estimate = store_var_contract.functions.setVar(255).estimate_gas()
print(f'Gas estimate to transact with setVar: {gas_estimate}')

if gas_estimate < 100000:

print("Sending transaction to setVar(255)\n")
tx_hash = store_var_contract.functions.setVar(255).transact()
receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
print("Transaction receipt mined:")
pprint.pprint(dict(receipt))
print("\nWas transaction successful?")
pprint.pprint(receipt["status"])
else:
print("Gas cost exceeds 100000")

Output:

Deployed <stdin>:StoreVar to: 0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b

Gas estimate to transact with setVar: 45535

Sending transaction to setVar(255)

Transaction receipt mined:

{'blockHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x837609ad0a404718c131ac5157373662944b778250a507783349d4e78bd8ac84'),

'blockNumber': 2,
'contractAddress': None,
'cumulativeGasUsed': 43488,
'gasUsed': 43488,
'logs': [AttributeDict({'type': 'mined', 'logIndex': 0, 'transactionIndex': 0,
˓→'transactionHash': HexBytes(

˓→'0x50aa3ba0673243f1e60f546a12ab364fc2f6603b1654052ebec2b83d4524c6d0'), 'blockHash':␣

˓→HexBytes('0x837609ad0a404718c131ac5157373662944b778250a507783349d4e78bd8ac84'),

˓→'blockNumber': 2, 'address': '0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b', 'data': '0x

˓→', 'topics': [HexBytes(

˓→'0x6c2b4666ba8da5a95717621d879a77de725f3d816709b9cbe9f059b8f875e284'), HexBytes(

˓→'0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ff')]})],

'status': 1,
'transactionHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x50aa3ba0673243f1e60f546a12ab364fc2f6603b1654052ebec2b83d4524c6d0'),

'transactionIndex': 0}
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Was transaction successful?

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2.15.9 Working with Contracts via ethPM

Warning: The ethPM module is no longer being maintained and will be deprecated with web3.py version 7.

ethPM packages contain configured contracts ready for use. Web3’s ethpm module (web3.pm) extends Web3’s native
Contract module, with a few modifications for how you instantiate Contract factories and instances.
All you need is the package name, version and ethPM registry address for the package you wish to use. An ethPM
registry is an on-chain datastore for the release data associated with an ethPM package. You can find some sample
registries to explore in the ethPM registry. Remember, you should only use packages from registries whose maintainer
you trust not to inject malicious code!
In this example we will use the [email protected] package sourced from the ens.snakecharmers.eth registry.
web3.pm uses the Package class to represent an ethPM package. This object houses all of the contract assets within a
package, and exposes them via an API. So, before we can interact with our package, we need to generate it as a Package
instance.
# Note. To use the web3.pm module, you will need to instantiate your w3 instance
# with a web3 provider connected to the chain on which your registry lives.
from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider
w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))

# The ethPM module is still experimental and subject to change,

# so for now we need to enable it via a temporary flag.
w3.enable_unstable_package_management_api()

# Then we need to set the registry address that we want to use.

# This should be an ENS address, but can also be a checksummed contract address.
w3.pm.set_registry("ens.snakecharmers.eth")

# This generates a Package instance of the target ethPM package.

ens_package = w3.pm.get_package("ethregistrar", "3.0.0")

Now that we have a Package representation of our target ethPM package, we can generate contract factories and
instances from this Package. However, it’s important to note that some packages might be missing the necessary
contract assets needed to generate an instance or a factory. You can use the ethPM CLI to figure out the available
contract types and deployments within an ethPM package.
# To interact with a deployment located in an ethPM package.
# Note. This will only expose deployments located on the
# chain of the connected provider (in this example, mainnet)
mainnet_registrar = ens_package.deployments.get_instance("BaseRegistrarImplementation")

# Now you can treat mainnet_registrar like any other Web3 Contract instance!
mainnet_registrar.caller.balanceOf("0x123...")
> 0
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mainnet_registrar.functions.approve("0x123", 100000).transact()
> 0x123abc... # tx_hash

# To create a contract factory from a contract type located in an ethPM package.

registrar_factory = ens_package.get_contract_factory("BaseRegistrarImplementation")

# Now you can treat registrar_factory like any other Web3 Contract factory to deploy new␣
˓→instances!

# Note. This will deploy new instances to the chain of the connected provider (in this␣
˓→example, mainnet)

registrar_factory.constructor(...).transact()
> 0x456def... # tx_hash

# To connect your Package to a new chain - simply pass it a new Web3 instance
# connected to your provider of choice. Now your factories will automatically
# deploy to this new chain, and the deployments available on a package will
# be automatically filtered to those located on the new chain.
goerli_registrar = ens_package.update_w3(goerli_w3_instance)

2.15.10 Working with an ERC20 Token Contract

Most fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain conform to the ERC20 standard. This section of the guide covers
interacting with an existing token contract which conforms to this standard.
In this guide we will interact with an existing token contract that we have already deployed to a local testing chain. This
guide assumes:
1. An existing token contract at a known address.
2. Access to the proper ABI for the given contract.
3. A web3.main.Web3 instance connected to a provider with an unlocked account which can send transactions.

Creating the contract factory

First we need to create a contract instance with the address of our token contract and the ERC20 ABI.

>>> contract = w3.eth.contract(contract_address, abi=ABI)

>>> contract.address
'0xF2E246BB76DF876Cef8b38ae84130F4F55De395b'

Querying token metadata

Each token will have a total supply which represents the total number of tokens in circulation. In this example we’ve
initialized the token contract to have 1 million tokens. Since this token contract is setup to have 18 decimal places, the
raw total supply returned by the contract is going to have 18 additional decimal places.

>>> contract.functions.name().call()
'TestToken'
>>> contract.functions.symbol().call()
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'TEST'
>>> decimals = contract.functions.decimals().call()
>>> decimals
18
>>> DECIMALS = 10 ** decimals
>>> contract.functions.totalSupply().call() // DECIMALS
1000000

Query account balances

Next we can query some account balances using the contract’s balanceOf function. The token contract we are using
starts with a single account which we’ll refer to as alice holding all of the tokens.

>>> alice = '0x7E5F4552091A69125d5DfCb7b8C2659029395Bdf'

>>> bob = '0x2B5AD5c4795c026514f8317c7a215E218DcCD6cF'
>>> raw_balance = contract.functions.balanceOf(alice).call()
>>> raw_balance
1000000000000000000000000
>>> raw_balance // DECIMALS
1000000
>>> contract.functions.balanceOf(bob).call()
0

Sending tokens

Next we can transfer some tokens from alice to bob using the contract’s transfer function.

>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.transfer(bob, 100).transact({'from': alice})

>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> contract.functions.balanceOf(alice).call()
999999999999999999999900
>>> contract.functions.balanceOf(bob).call()
100

Creating an approval for external transfers

Alice could also approve someone else to spend tokens from her account using the approve function. We can also
query how many tokens we’re approved to spend using the allowance function.

>>> contract.functions.allowance(alice, bob).call()

0
>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.approve(bob, 200).transact({'from': alice})
>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> contract.functions.allowance(alice, bob).call()
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When someone has an allowance they can transfer those tokens using the transferFrom function.

>>> contract.functions.allowance(alice, bob).call()

200
>>> contract.functions.balanceOf(bob).call()
100
>>> tx_hash = contract.functions.transferFrom(alice, bob, 75).transact({'from': bob})
>>> tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash)
>>> contract.functions.allowance(alice, bob).call()
125
>>> contract.functions.balanceOf(bob).call()
175

2.15.11 CCIP Read support for offchain lookup

Contract calls support CCIP Read by default, via a ccip_read_enabled flag on the call and, more globally,
a global_ccip_read_enabled flag on the provider. The following should work by default without raising an
OffchainLookup and instead handling it appropriately as per the specification outlined in EIP-3668.

myContract.functions.revertsWithOffchainLookup(myData).call()

If the offchain lookup requires the user to send a transaction rather than make a call, this may be handled appropriately
in the following way:

from web3 import Web3, WebsocketProvider

from web3.utils import handle_offchain_lookup

w3 = Web3(WebsocketProvider(...))

myContract = w3.eth.contract(address=...)
myData = b'data for offchain lookup function call'

# preflight with an `eth_call` and handle the exception

try:
myContract.functions.revertsWithOffchainLookup(myData).call(ccip_read_enabled=False)
except OffchainLookup as ocl:
tx = {'to': myContract.address, 'from': my_account}
data_for_callback_function = handle_offchain_lookup(ocl.payload)
tx['data'] = data_for_callback_function

# send the built transaction with `eth_sendTransaction` or sign and send with `eth_
˓→sendRawTransaction`
tx_hash = w3.eth.send_transaction(tx)

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2.15.12 Contract Unit Tests in Python

Here is an example of how one can use the pytest framework in python, web3.py, eth-tester, and PyEVM to perform
unit tests entirely in python without any additional need for a full featured ethereum node/client. To install needed
dependencies you can use the pinned extra for eth_tester in web3 and pytest:

$ pip install web3[tester] pytest

Once you have an environment set up for testing, you can then write your tests like so:
# of how to write unit tests with web3.py
import pytest

import pytest_asyncio

from web3 import (

EthereumTesterProvider,
Web3,
)
from web3.eth import (
AsyncEth,
)
from web3.providers.eth_tester.main import (
AsyncEthereumTesterProvider,
)

@pytest.fixture
def tester_provider():
return EthereumTesterProvider()

@pytest.fixture
def eth_tester(tester_provider):
return tester_provider.ethereum_tester

@pytest.fixture
def w3(tester_provider):
return Web3(tester_provider)

@pytest.fixture
def foo_contract(eth_tester, w3):
# For simplicity of this example we statically define the
# contract code here. You might read your contracts from a
# file, or something else to test with in your own code
#
# pragma solidity^0.5.3;
#
# contract Foo {
#
# string public bar;
# event barred(string _bar);
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#
# constructor() public {
# bar = "hello world";
# }
#
# function setBar(string memory _bar) public {
# bar = _bar;
# emit barred(_bar);
# }
#
# }

deploy_address = eth_tester.get_accounts()[0]

abi = """[{"anonymous":false,"inputs":[{"indexed":false,"name":"_bar","type":"string
˓→"}],"name":"barred","type":"event"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[{"name":"_bar","type":
˓→"string"}],"name":"setBar","outputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable",

˓→"type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":

˓→"constructor"},{"constant":true,"inputs":[],"name":"bar","outputs":[{"name":"","type":

˓→"string"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"}]""" # noqa:␣
˓→E501

# This bytecode is the output of compiling with

# solc version:0.5.3+commit.10d17f24.Emscripten.clang
bytecode = ""
˓→"608060405234801561001057600080fd5b506040805190810160405280600b81526020017f68656c6c6f20776f726c6400000

˓→""" # noqa: E501

# Create our contract class.

FooContract = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)
# issue a transaction to deploy the contract.
tx_hash = FooContract.constructor().transact(
{
"from": deploy_address,
}
)
# wait for the transaction to be mined
tx_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)
# instantiate and return an instance of our contract.
return FooContract(tx_receipt.contractAddress)

def test_initial_greeting(foo_contract):
hw = foo_contract.caller.bar()
assert hw == "hello world"

def test_can_update_greeting(w3, foo_contract):

# send transaction that updates the greeting
tx_hash = foo_contract.functions.setBar("testing contracts is easy").transact(
{
"from": w3.eth.accounts[1],
}
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)
w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)

# verify that the contract is now using the updated greeting

hw = foo_contract.caller.bar()
assert hw == "testing contracts is easy"

def test_updating_greeting_emits_event(w3, foo_contract):

# send transaction that updates the greeting
tx_hash = foo_contract.functions.setBar("testing contracts is easy").transact(
{
"from": w3.eth.accounts[1],
}
)
receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)

# get all of the `barred` logs for the contract

logs = foo_contract.events.barred.get_logs()
assert len(logs) == 1

# verify that the log's data matches the expected value

event = logs[0]
assert event.blockHash == receipt.blockHash
assert event.args._bar == "testing contracts is easy"

@pytest.fixture
def async_eth_tester():
return AsyncEthereumTesterProvider().ethereum_tester

@pytest_asyncio.fixture()
async def async_w3():
provider = AsyncEthereumTesterProvider()
w3 = Web3(provider, modules={"eth": [AsyncEth]}, middlewares=provider.middlewares)
w3.eth.default_account = await w3.eth.coinbase
return w3

@pytest_asyncio.fixture()
async def async_foo_contract(async_w3):
# For simplicity of this example we statically define the
# contract code here. You might read your contracts from a
# file, or something else to test with in your own code
#
# pragma solidity^0.5.3;
#
# contract Foo {
#
# string public bar;
# event barred(string _bar);
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#
# constructor() public {
# bar = "hello world";
# }
#
# function setBar(string memory _bar) public {
# bar = _bar;
# emit barred(_bar);
# }
#
# }

async_eth_tester_accounts = await async_w3.eth.accounts

deploy_address = async_eth_tester_accounts[0]

abi = """[{"anonymous":false,"inputs":[{"indexed":false,"name":"_bar","type":"string
˓→"}],"name":"barred","type":"event"},{"constant":false,"inputs":[{"name":"_bar","type":
˓→"string"}],"name":"setBar","outputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable",

˓→"type":"function"},{"inputs":[],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"nonpayable","type":

˓→"constructor"},{"constant":true,"inputs":[],"name":"bar","outputs":[{"name":"","type":

˓→"string"}],"payable":false,"stateMutability":"view","type":"function"}]""" # noqa:␣
˓→E501

# This bytecode is the output of compiling with

# solc version:0.5.3+commit.10d17f24.Emscripten.clang
bytecode = ""
˓→"608060405234801561001057600080fd5b506040805190810160405280600b81526020017f68656c6c6f20776f726c6400000

˓→""" # noqa: E501

# Create our contract class.

FooContract = async_w3.eth.contract(abi=abi, bytecode=bytecode)
# issue a transaction to deploy the contract.
tx_hash = await FooContract.constructor().transact(
{
"from": deploy_address,
}
)
# wait for the transaction to be mined
tx_receipt = await async_w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)
# instantiate and return an instance of our contract.
return FooContract(tx_receipt.contractAddress)

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_initial_greeting(async_foo_contract):
hw = await async_foo_contract.caller.bar()
assert hw == "hello world"

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_can_update_greeting(async_w3, async_foo_contract):
async_eth_tester_accounts = await async_w3.eth.accounts
# send transaction that updates the greeting
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tx_hash = await async_foo_contract.functions.setBar(
"testing contracts is easy",
).transact(
{
"from": async_eth_tester_accounts[1],
}
)
await async_w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)

# verify that the contract is now using the updated greeting

hw = await async_foo_contract.caller.bar()
assert hw == "testing contracts is easy"

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_async_updating_greeting_emits_event(async_w3, async_foo_contract):
async_eth_tester_accounts = await async_w3.eth.accounts
# send transaction that updates the greeting
tx_hash = await async_foo_contract.functions.setBar(
"testing contracts is easy",
).transact(
{
"from": async_eth_tester_accounts[1],
}
)
receipt = await async_w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(tx_hash, 180)

# get all of the `barred` logs for the contract

logs = await async_foo_contract.events.barred.get_logs()
assert len(logs) == 1

# verify that the log's data matches the expected value

event = logs[0]
assert event.blockHash == receipt.blockHash
assert event.args._bar == "testing contracts is easy"

2.15.13 Using Infura Goerli Node

Import your required libraries

from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider

Initialize a web3 instance with an Infura node

w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("https://goerli.infura.io/v3/YOUR_INFURA_KEY"))

Inject the middleware into the middleware onion

from web3.middleware import geth_poa_middleware

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Just remember that you have to sign all transactions locally, as infura does not handle any keys from your wallet ( refer
to this )

transaction = contract.functions.function_Name(params).build_transaction()
transaction.update({ 'gas' : appropriate_gas_amount })
transaction.update({ 'nonce' : w3.eth.get_transaction_count('Your_Wallet_Address') })
signed_tx = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(transaction, private_key)

P.S : the two updates are done to the transaction dictionary, since a raw transaction might not contain gas & nonce
amounts, so you have to add them manually.
And finally, send the transaction

txn_hash = w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_tx.rawTransaction)
txn_receipt = w3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(txn_hash)

Tip : afterwards you can use the value stored in txn_hash, in an explorer like etherscan to view the transaction’s details

2.15.14 Adjusting log levels

web3.py internally uses Python logging subsystem.

If you want to run your application logging in debug mode, below is an example of how to make some JSON-RPC
traffic quieter.

import logging
import coloredlogs

def setup_logging(log_level=logging.DEBUG):
"""Setup root logger and quiet some levels."""
logger = logging.getLogger()

# Set log format to display the logger name to hunt down verbose logging modules
fmt = "%(name)-25s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s"

# Use colored logging output for console with the coloredlogs package
# https://pypi.org/project/coloredlogs/
coloredlogs.install(level=log_level, fmt=fmt, logger=logger)

# Disable logging of JSON-RPC requests and replies

logging.getLogger("web3.RequestManager").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
logging.getLogger("web3.providers.HTTPProvider").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
# logging.getLogger("web3.RequestManager").propagate = False

# Disable all internal debug logging of requests and urllib3

# E.g. HTTP traffic
logging.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
logging.getLogger("urllib3").setLevel(logging.WARNING)

return logger

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2.15.15 Advanced example: Fetching all token transfer events

In this example, we show how to fetch all events of a certain event type from the Ethereum blockchain. There are three
challenges when working with a large set of events:
• How to incrementally update an existing database of fetched events
• How to deal with interruptions in long running processes
• How to deal with eth_getLogs JSON-RPC call query limitations
• How to handle Ethereum minor chain reorganisations in (near) real-time data

eth_getLogs limitations

Ethereum JSON-RPC API servers, like Geth, do not provide easy to paginate over events, only over blocks. There’s no
request that can find the first block with an event or how many events occur within a range of blocks. The only feedback
the JSON-RPC service will give you is whether the eth_getLogs call failed.
In this example script, we provide two kinds of heuristics to deal with this issue. The script scans events in a chunk of
blocks (start block number - end block number). Then it uses two methods to find how many events there are likely to
be in a block window:
• Dynamically set the block range window size, while never exceeding a threshold (e.g., 10,000 blocks).
• In the case eth_getLogs JSON-PRC call gives a timeout error, decrease the end block number and try again with
a smaller block range window.

Example code

The following example code is divided into a reusable EventScanner class and then a demo script that:
• fetches all transfer events for RCC token,
• can incrementally run again to check if there are new events,
• handles interruptions (e.g., CTRL+C abort) gracefully,
• writes all Transfer events in a single file JSON database, so that other process can consume them,
• uses the tqdm library for progress bar output in a console,
• only supports HTTPS providers, because JSON-RPC retry logic depends on the implementation details of the
underlying protocol,
• disables the standard http_retry_request_middleware because it does not know how to handle the shrinking
block range window for eth_getLogs, and
• consumes around 20k JSON-RPC API calls.
The script can be run with: python ./eventscanner.py <your JSON-RPC API URL>.

"""A stateful event scanner for Ethereum-based blockchains using web3.py.

With the stateful mechanism, you can do one batch scan or incremental scans,
where events are added wherever the scanner left off.
"""

import datetime
import time
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import logging
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Tuple, Optional, Callable, List, Iterable, Dict, Any

from web3 import Web3

from web3.contract import Contract
from web3.datastructures import AttributeDict
from web3.exceptions import BlockNotFound
from eth_abi.codec import ABICodec

# Currently this method is not exposed over official web3 API,

# but we need it to construct eth_getLogs parameters
from web3._utils.filters import construct_event_filter_params
from web3._utils.events import get_event_data

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class EventScannerState(ABC):
"""Application state that remembers what blocks we have scanned in the case of crash.
"""

@abstractmethod
def get_last_scanned_block(self) -> int:
"""Number of the last block we have scanned on the previous cycle.

:return: 0 if no blocks scanned yet

"""

@abstractmethod
def start_chunk(self, block_number: int):
"""Scanner is about to ask data of multiple blocks over JSON-RPC.

Start a database session if needed.

"""

@abstractmethod
def end_chunk(self, block_number: int):
"""Scanner finished a number of blocks.

Persistent any data in your state now.

"""

@abstractmethod
def process_event(self, block_when: datetime.datetime, event: AttributeDict) ->␣
˓→object:

"""Process incoming events.

This function takes raw events from Web3, transforms them to your application␣
˓→internal
format, then saves them in a database or some other state.
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:param block_when: When this block was mined

:param event: Symbolic dictionary of the event data

:return: Internal state structure that is the result of event transformation.

"""

@abstractmethod
def delete_data(self, since_block: int) -> int:
"""Delete any data since this block was scanned.

Purges any potential minor reorg data.

"""

class EventScanner:
"""Scan blockchain for events and try not to abuse JSON-RPC API too much.

Can be used for real-time scans, as it detects minor chain reorganisation and␣
˓→rescans.
Unlike the easy web3.contract.Contract, this scanner can scan events from multiple␣
˓→contracts at once.

For example, you can get all transfers from all tokens in the same scan.

You *should* disable the default `http_retry_request_middleware` on your provider for␣

˓→Web3,
because it cannot correctly throttle and decrease the `eth_getLogs` block number␣
˓→range.

"""

def __init__(self, w3: Web3, contract: Contract, state: EventScannerState, events:␣

˓→List, filters: Dict[str, Any],
max_chunk_scan_size: int = 10000, max_request_retries: int = 30,␣
˓→request_retry_seconds: float = 3.0):

"""
:param contract: Contract
:param events: List of web3 Event we scan
:param filters: Filters passed to get_logs
:param max_chunk_scan_size: JSON-RPC API limit in the number of blocks we query.␣
˓→(Recommendation: 10,000 for mainnet, 500,000 for testnets)

:param max_request_retries: How many times we try to reattempt a failed JSON-RPC␣

˓→call

:param request_retry_seconds: Delay between failed requests to let JSON-RPC␣

˓→server to recover

"""

self.logger = logger
self.contract = contract
self.w3 = w3
self.state = state
self.events = events
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self.filters = filters

# Our JSON-RPC throttling parameters

self.min_scan_chunk_size = 10 # 12 s/block = 120 seconds period
self.max_scan_chunk_size = max_chunk_scan_size
self.max_request_retries = max_request_retries
self.request_retry_seconds = request_retry_seconds

# Factor how fast we increase the chunk size if results are found
# # (slow down scan after starting to get hits)
self.chunk_size_decrease = 0.5

# Factor how fast we increase chunk size if no results found

self.chunk_size_increase = 2.0

@property
def address(self):
return self.token_address

def get_block_timestamp(self, block_num) -> datetime.datetime:

"""Get Ethereum block timestamp"""
try:
block_info = self.w3.eth.get_block(block_num)
except BlockNotFound:
# Block was not mined yet,
# minor chain reorganisation?
return None
last_time = block_info["timestamp"]
return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(last_time)

def get_suggested_scan_start_block(self):
"""Get where we should start to scan for new token events.

If there are no prior scans, start from block 1.

Otherwise, start from the last end block minus ten blocks.
We rescan the last ten scanned blocks in the case there were forks to avoid
misaccounting due to minor single block works (happens once in an hour in␣
˓→Ethereum).

These heuristics could be made more robust, but this is for the sake of simple␣
˓→reference implementation.

"""

end_block = self.get_last_scanned_block()
if end_block:
return max(1, end_block - self.NUM_BLOCKS_RESCAN_FOR_FORKS)
return 1

def get_suggested_scan_end_block(self):
"""Get the last mined block on Ethereum chain we are following."""

# Do not scan all the way to the final block, as this

# block might not be mined yet
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return self.w3.eth.block_number - 1

def get_last_scanned_block(self) -> int:

return self.state.get_last_scanned_block()

def delete_potentially_forked_block_data(self, after_block: int):

"""Purge old data in the case of blockchain reorganisation."""
self.state.delete_data(after_block)

def scan_chunk(self, start_block, end_block) -> Tuple[int, datetime.datetime, list]:

"""Read and process events between to block numbers.

Dynamically decrease the size of the chunk if the case JSON-RPC server pukes out.

:return: tuple(actual end block number, when this block was mined, processed␣
˓→events)
"""

block_timestamps = {}
get_block_timestamp = self.get_block_timestamp

# Cache block timestamps to reduce some RPC overhead

# Real solution might include smarter models around block
def get_block_when(block_num):
if block_num not in block_timestamps:
block_timestamps[block_num] = get_block_timestamp(block_num)
return block_timestamps[block_num]

all_processed = []

for event_type in self.events:

# Callable that takes care of the underlying web3 call

def _fetch_events(_start_block, _end_block):
return _fetch_events_for_all_contracts(self.w3,
event_type,
self.filters,
from_block=_start_block,
to_block=_end_block)

# Do `n` retries on `eth_getLogs`,

# throttle down block range if needed
end_block, events = _retry_web3_call(
_fetch_events,
start_block=start_block,
end_block=end_block,
retries=self.max_request_retries,
delay=self.request_retry_seconds)

for evt in events:

idx = evt["logIndex"] # Integer of the log index position in the block,␣
˓→null when its pending

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# We cannot avoid minor chain reorganisations, but

# at least we must avoid blocks that are not mined yet
assert idx is not None, "Somehow tried to scan a pending block"

block_number = evt["blockNumber"]

# Get UTC time when this event happened (block mined timestamp)
# from our in-memory cache
block_when = get_block_when(block_number)

logger.debug(f"Processing event {evt['event']}, block: {evt['blockNumber

']} count: {evt['blockNumber']}")
˓→

processed = self.state.process_event(block_when, evt)

all_processed.append(processed)

end_block_timestamp = get_block_when(end_block)
return end_block, end_block_timestamp, all_processed

def estimate_next_chunk_size(self, current_chuck_size: int, event_found_count: int):

"""Try to figure out optimal chunk size

Our scanner might need to scan the whole blockchain for all events

* We want to minimize API calls over empty blocks

* We want to make sure that one scan chunk does not try to process too many␣
˓→entries once, as we try to control commit buffer size and potentially asynchronous␣
˓→busy loop

* Do not overload node serving JSON-RPC API by asking data for too many events␣
at a time
˓→

Currently Ethereum JSON-API does not have an API to tell when a first event␣
˓→occurred in a blockchain
and our heuristics try to accelerate block fetching (chunk size) until we see␣
˓→the first event.

These heuristics exponentially increase the scan chunk size depending on if we␣
˓→are seeing events or not.
When any transfers are encountered, we are back to scanning only a few blocks at␣
˓→a time.

It does not make sense to do a full chain scan starting from block 1, doing one␣
˓→JSON-RPC call per 20 blocks.

"""

if event_found_count > 0:
# When we encounter first events, reset the chunk size window
current_chuck_size = self.min_scan_chunk_size
else:
current_chuck_size *= self.chunk_size_increase

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current_chuck_size = max(self.min_scan_chunk_size, current_chuck_size)
current_chuck_size = min(self.max_scan_chunk_size, current_chuck_size)
return int(current_chuck_size)

def scan(self, start_block, end_block, start_chunk_size=20, progress_

˓→callback=Optional[Callable]) -> Tuple[
list, int]:
"""Perform a token balances scan.

Assumes all balances in the database are valid before start_block (no forks␣
˓→sneaked in).

:param start_block: The first block included in the scan

:param end_block: The last block included in the scan

:param start_chunk_size: How many blocks we try to fetch over JSON-RPC on the␣
˓→first attempt

:param progress_callback: If this is an UI application, update the progress of␣

˓→the scan

:return: [All processed events, number of chunks used]

"""

assert start_block <= end_block

current_block = start_block

# Scan in chunks, commit between

chunk_size = start_chunk_size
last_scan_duration = last_logs_found = 0
total_chunks_scanned = 0

# All processed entries we got on this scan cycle

all_processed = []

while current_block <= end_block:

self.state.start_chunk(current_block, chunk_size)

# Print some diagnostics to logs to try to fiddle with real world JSON-RPC␣
˓→API performance
estimated_end_block = current_block + chunk_size
logger.debug(
f"Scanning token transfers for blocks: {current_block} - {estimated_end_
˓→block}, chunk size {chunk_size}, last chunk scan took {last_scan_duration}, last logs␣

˓→found {last_logs_found}"

start = time.time()
actual_end_block, end_block_timestamp, new_entries = self.scan_chunk(current_
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˓→ block, estimated_end_block)

# Where does our current chunk scan ends - are we out of chain yet?
current_end = actual_end_block

last_scan_duration = time.time() - start

all_processed += new_entries

# Print progress bar

if progress_callback:
progress_callback(start_block, end_block, current_block, end_block_
˓→timestamp, chunk_size, len(new_entries))

# Try to guess how many blocks to fetch over `eth_getLogs` API next time
chunk_size = self.estimate_next_chunk_size(chunk_size, len(new_entries))

# Set where the next chunk starts

current_block = current_end + 1
total_chunks_scanned += 1
self.state.end_chunk(current_end)

return all_processed, total_chunks_scanned

def _retry_web3_call(func, start_block, end_block, retries, delay) -> Tuple[int, list]:

"""A custom retry loop to throttle down block range.

If our JSON-RPC server cannot serve all incoming `eth_getLogs` in a single request,
we retry and throttle down block range for every retry.

For example, Go Ethereum does not indicate what is an acceptable response size.
It just fails on the server-side with a "context was cancelled" warning.

:param func: A callable that triggers Ethereum JSON-RPC, as func(start_block, end_

˓→block)
:param start_block: The initial start block of the block range
:param end_block: The initial start block of the block range
:param retries: How many times we retry
:param delay: Time to sleep between retries
"""
for i in range(retries):
try:
return end_block, func(start_block, end_block)
except Exception as e:
# Assume this is HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=8545): Read timed␣
˓→out. (read timeout=10)

# from Go Ethereum. This translates to the error "context was cancelled" on␣
˓→the server side:

# https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/20426
if i < retries - 1:
# Give some more verbose info than the default middleware
logger.warning(
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f"Retrying events for block range {start_block} - {end_block} ({end_
˓→block-start_block}) failed with {e} , retrying in {delay} seconds")

# Decrease the `eth_getBlocks` range

end_block = start_block + ((end_block - start_block) // 2)
# Let the JSON-RPC to recover e.g. from restart
time.sleep(delay)
continue
else:
logger.warning("Out of retries")
raise

def _fetch_events_for_all_contracts(
w3,
event,
argument_filters: Dict[str, Any],
from_block: int,
to_block: int) -> Iterable:
"""Get events using eth_getLogs API.

This method is detached from any contract instance.

This is a stateless method, as opposed to create_filter.

It can be safely called against nodes which do not provide `eth_newFilter` API, like␣
˓→Infura.

"""

if from_block is None:
raise TypeError("Missing mandatory keyword argument to get_logs: from_block")

# Currently no way to poke this using a public web3.py API.

# This will return raw underlying ABI JSON object for the event
abi = event._get_event_abi()

# Depending on the Solidity version used to compile

# the contract that uses the ABI,
# it might have Solidity ABI encoding v1 or v2.
# We just assume the default that you set on Web3 object here.
# More information here https://eth-abi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
codec: ABICodec = w3.codec

# Here we need to poke a bit into Web3 internals, as this

# functionality is not exposed by default.
# Construct JSON-RPC raw filter presentation based on human readable Python␣
˓→descriptions

# Namely, convert event names to their keccak signatures

# More information here:
# https://github.com/ethereum/web3.py/blob/e176ce0793dafdd0573acc8d4b76425b6eb604ca/
˓→web3/_utils/filters.py#L71

data_filter_set, event_filter_params = construct_event_filter_params(

abi,
codec,
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address=argument_filters.get("address"),
argument_filters=argument_filters,
fromBlock=from_block,
toBlock=to_block
)

logger.debug(f"Querying eth_getLogs with the following parameters: {event_filter_

˓→params}")

# Call JSON-RPC API on your Ethereum node.

# get_logs() returns raw AttributedDict entries
logs = w3.eth.get_logs(event_filter_params)

# Convert raw binary data to Python proxy objects as described by ABI

all_events = []
for log in logs:
# Convert raw JSON-RPC log result to human readable event by using ABI data
# More information how process_log works here
# https://github.com/ethereum/web3.py/blob/
˓→fbaf1ad11b0c7fac09ba34baff2c256cffe0a148/web3/_utils/events.py#L200

evt = get_event_data(codec, abi, log)

# Note: This was originally yield,
# but deferring the timeout exception caused the throttle logic not to work
all_events.append(evt)
return all_events

if __name__ == "__main__":
# Simple demo that scans all the token transfers of RCC token (11k).
# The demo supports persistent state by using a JSON file.
# You will need an Ethereum node for this.
# Running this script will consume around 20k JSON-RPC calls.
# With locally running Geth, the script takes 10 minutes.
# The resulting JSON state file is 2.9 MB.
import sys
import json
from web3.providers.rpc import HTTPProvider

# We use tqdm library to render a nice progress bar in the console

# https://pypi.org/project/tqdm/
from tqdm import tqdm

# RCC has around 11k Transfer events

# https://etherscan.io/token/0x9b6443b0fb9c241a7fdac375595cea13e6b7807a
RCC_ADDRESS = "0x9b6443b0fb9c241a7fdac375595cea13e6b7807a"

# Reduced ERC-20 ABI, only Transfer event

ABI = """[
{
"anonymous": false,
"inputs": [
{
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"indexed": true,
"name": "from",
"type": "address"
},
{
"indexed": true,
"name": "to",
"type": "address"
},
{
"indexed": false,
"name": "value",
"type": "uint256"
}
],
"name": "Transfer",
"type": "event"
}
]
"""

class JSONifiedState(EventScannerState):
"""Store the state of scanned blocks and all events.

All state is an in-memory dict.

Simple load/store massive JSON on start up.
"""

def __init__(self):
self.state = None
self.fname = "test-state.json"
# How many second ago we saved the JSON file
self.last_save = 0

def reset(self):
"""Create initial state of nothing scanned."""
self.state = {
"last_scanned_block": 0,
"blocks": {},
}

def restore(self):
"""Restore the last scan state from a file."""
try:
self.state = json.load(open(self.fname, "rt"))
print(f"Restored the state, previously {self.state['last_scanned_block']}
˓→ blocks have been scanned")
except (IOError, json.decoder.JSONDecodeError):
print("State starting from scratch")
self.reset()

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"""Save everything we have scanned so far in a file."""
with open(self.fname, "wt") as f:
json.dump(self.state, f)
self.last_save = time.time()

#
# EventScannerState methods implemented below
#

def get_last_scanned_block(self):
"""The number of the last block we have stored."""
return self.state["last_scanned_block"]

def delete_data(self, since_block):

"""Remove potentially reorganised blocks from the scan data."""
for block_num in range(since_block, self.get_last_scanned_block()):
if block_num in self.state["blocks"]:
del self.state["blocks"][block_num]

def start_chunk(self, block_number, chunk_size):

pass

def end_chunk(self, block_number):

"""Save at the end of each block, so we can resume in the case of a crash or␣
˓→CTRL+C"""

# Next time the scanner is started we will resume from this block
self.state["last_scanned_block"] = block_number

# Save the database file for every minute

if time.time() - self.last_save > 60:
self.save()

def process_event(self, block_when: datetime.datetime, event: AttributeDict) ->␣

str:
˓→

"""Record a ERC-20 transfer in our database."""

# Events are keyed by their transaction hash and log index
# One transaction may contain multiple events
# and each one of those gets their own log index

# event_name = event.event # "Transfer"

log_index = event.logIndex # Log index within the block
# transaction_index = event.transactionIndex # Transaction index within the␣
block
˓→

txhash = event.transactionHash.hex() # Transaction hash

block_number = event.blockNumber

# Convert ERC-20 Transfer event to our internal format

args = event["args"]
transfer = {
"from": args["from"],
"to": args.to,
"value": args.value,
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"timestamp": block_when.isoformat(),
}

# Create empty dict as the block that contains all transactions by txhash
if block_number not in self.state["blocks"]:
self.state["blocks"][block_number] = {}

block = self.state["blocks"][block_number]
if txhash not in block:
# We have not yet recorded any transfers in this transaction
# (One transaction may contain multiple events if executed by a smart␣
˓→contract).

# Create a tx entry that contains all events by a log index

self.state["blocks"][block_number][txhash] = {}

# Record ERC-20 transfer in our database

self.state["blocks"][block_number][txhash][log_index] = transfer

# Return a pointer that allows us to look up this event later if needed

return f"{block_number}-{txhash}-{log_index}"

def run():

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Usage: eventscanner.py http://your-node-url")
sys.exit(1)

api_url = sys.argv[1]

# Enable logs to the stdout.

# DEBUG is very verbose level
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

provider = HTTPProvider(api_url)

# Remove the default JSON-RPC retry middleware

# as it correctly cannot handle eth_getLogs block range
# throttle down.
provider.middlewares.clear()

w3 = Web3(provider)

# Prepare stub ERC-20 contract object

abi = json.loads(ABI)
ERC20 = w3.eth.contract(abi=abi)

# Restore/create our persistent state

state = JSONifiedState()
state.restore()

# chain_id: int, w3: Web3, abi: Dict, state: EventScannerState, events: List,␣
˓→filters: Dict, max_chunk_scan_size: int=10000
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scanner = EventScanner(
w3=w3,
contract=ERC20,
state=state,
events=[ERC20.events.Transfer],
filters={"address": RCC_ADDRESS},
# How many maximum blocks at the time we request from JSON-RPC
# and we are unlikely to exceed the response size limit of the JSON-RPC␣
˓→server

max_chunk_scan_size=10000
)

# Assume we might have scanned the blocks all the way to the last Ethereum block
# that mined a few seconds before the previous scan run ended.
# Because there might have been a minor Ethereum chain reorganisations
# since the last scan ended, we need to discard
# the last few blocks from the previous scan results.
chain_reorg_safety_blocks = 10
scanner.delete_potentially_forked_block_data(state.get_last_scanned_block() -␣
˓→chain_reorg_safety_blocks)

# Scan from [last block scanned] - [latest ethereum block]

# Note that our chain reorg safety blocks cannot go negative
start_block = max(state.get_last_scanned_block() - chain_reorg_safety_blocks, 0)
end_block = scanner.get_suggested_scan_end_block()
blocks_to_scan = end_block - start_block

print(f"Scanning events from blocks {start_block} - {end_block}")

# Render a progress bar in the console

start = time.time()
with tqdm(total=blocks_to_scan) as progress_bar:
def _update_progress(start, end, current, current_block_timestamp, chunk_
˓→size, events_count):

if current_block_timestamp:
formatted_time = current_block_timestamp.strftime("%d-%m-%Y")
else:
formatted_time = "no block time available"
progress_bar.set_description(f"Current block: {current} ({formatted_time}
˓→), blocks in a scan batch: {chunk_size}, events processed in a batch {events_count}")

progress_bar.update(chunk_size)

# Run the scan

result, total_chunks_scanned = scanner.scan(start_block, end_block, progress_
˓→callback=_update_progress)

state.save()
duration = time.time() - start
print(f"Scanned total {len(result)} Transfer events, in {duration} seconds,␣
˓→total {total_chunks_scanned} chunk scans performed")

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2.16 Troubleshooting

2.16.1 Set up a clean environment

Many things can cause a broken environment. You might be on an unsupported version of Python. Another package
might be installed that has a name or version conflict. Often, the best way to guarantee a correct environment is with
virtualenv, like:

# Install pip if it is not available:

$ which pip || curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

# Install virtualenv if it is not available:

$ which virtualenv || pip install --upgrade virtualenv

# *If* the above command displays an error, you can try installing as root:
$ sudo pip install virtualenv

# Create a virtual environment:

$ virtualenv -p python3 ~/.venv-py3

# Activate your new virtual environment:

$ source ~/.venv-py3/bin/activate

# With virtualenv active, make sure you have the latest packaging tools
$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

# Now we can install web3.py...

$ pip install --upgrade web3

Note: Remember that each new terminal session requires you to reactivate your virtualenv, like: $ source ~/.
venv-py3/bin/activate

2.16.2 Why can’t I use a particular function?

Note that a web3.py instance must be configured before you can use most of its capabilities. One symptom of not
configuring the instance first is an error that looks something like this: AttributeError: type object 'Web3'
has no attribute 'eth'.
To properly configure your web3.py instance, specify which provider you’re using to connect to the Ethereum network.
An example configuration, if you’re connecting to a locally run node, might be:

>>> from web3 import Web3

>>> w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider('http://localhost:8545'))

# now `w3` is available to use:

>>> w3.is_connected()
True
>>> w3.eth.send_transaction(...)

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2.16.3 Why isn’t my web3 instance connecting to the network?

You can check that your instance is connected via the is_connected method:

>>> w3.is_connected()
False

There are a variety of explanations for why you may see False here. To help you diagnose the problem, is_connected
has an optional show_traceback argument:

>>> w3.is_connected(show_traceback=True)
# this is an example, your error may differ

# <long stack trace output>

ProviderConnectionError: Problem connecting to provider with error: <class
˓→'FileNotFoundError'>: cannot connect to IPC socket at path: None

If you’re running a local node, such as Geth, double-check that you’ve indeed started the binary and that you’ve started
it from the intended directory - particularly if you’ve specified a relative path to its ipc file.
If that does not address your issue, it’s probable that you still have a Provider configuration issue. There are several
options for configuring a Provider, detailed here.

2.16.4 How do I use my MetaMask accounts from web3.py?

Often you don’t need to do this, just make a new account in web3.py, and transfer funds from your MetaMask account
into it. But if you must. . .
Export your private key from MetaMask, and use the local private key tools in web3.py to sign and send transactions.
See how to export your private key and Working with Local Private Keys.

2.16.5 How do I get ether for my test network?

Test networks usually have something called a “faucet” to help get test ether to people who want to use it. The faucet
simply sends you test ether when you visit a web page, or ping a chat bot, etc.
Each test network has its own version of test ether, so each one must maintain its own faucet. If you’re not sure which
test network to use, see Which network should I connect to?
Faucet mechanisms tend to come and go, so if any information here is out of date, try the Ethereum Stackexchange.
Here are some links to testnet ether instructions (in no particular order):
• Goerli (different faucet links on top menu bar)
• Sepolia

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2.16.6 Why can’t I create an account?

If you’re seeing the error The method personal_newAccount does not exist/is not available, you may
be trying to create an account while connected to a remote node provider, like Infura. As a matter of security, remote
nodes cannot create accounts.
If you are in fact running a local node, make sure that it’s properly configured to accept personal methods. For Geth,
that looks something like: --http.api personal,eth,<etc> or --ws.api personal,eth,<etc> depending on
your configuration. Note that the IPC configuration is most secure and includes the personal API by default.
In general, your options for accounts are:
• Run a node (e.g., Geth) locally, connect to it via the local port, then use the personal API.
• Import a keystore file for an account and extract the private key.
• Create an account via the eth-account API, e.g., new_acct = w3.eth.account.create().
• Use an external service (e.g., MyCrypto) to generate a new account, then securely import its private key.

Warning: Don’t store real value in an account until you are familiar with security best practices. If you lose your
private key, you lose your account!

2.16.7 Making Ethereum JSON-RPC API access faster

Your Ethereum node JSON-RPC API might be slow when fetching multiple and large requests, especially when running
batch jobs. Here are some tips for how to speed up your web3.py application.
• Run your client locally, e.g., Go Ethereum or TurboGeth. The network latency and speed are the major limiting
factors for fast API access.
• Use IPC communication instead of HTTP/WebSockets. See Choosing How to Connect to Your Node.
• Use an optimised JSON decoder. A future iteration of web3.py may change the default decoder or provide an
API to configure one, but for now, you may patch the provider class to use ujson.

"""JSON-RPC decoding optimised for web3.py"""

from typing import cast

import ujson

from web3.providers import JSONBaseProvider

from web3.types import RPCResponse

def _fast_decode_rpc_response(raw_response: bytes) -> RPCResponse:

decoded = ujson.loads(raw_response)
return cast(RPCResponse, decoded)

def patch_provider(provider: JSONBaseProvider):

"""Monkey-patch web3.py provider for faster JSON decoding.

Call this on your provider after construction.

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This greatly improves JSON-RPC API access speeds, when fetching

multiple and large responses.
"""
provider.decode_rpc_response = _fast_decode_rpc_response

2.16.8 Why am I getting Visual C++ or Cython not installed error?

Some Windows users that do not have Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.0 or greater installed may see an error message
when installing web3.py as shown below:

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required. Get it with "Microsoft C++␣
˓→Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

To fix this error, download and install Microsoft Visual C++ from here :
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio
• x64 Visual C++
• x86 Visual C++
• ARM64 Visual C++

2.17 Migrating your code from v5 to v6

web3.py follows Semantic Versioning, which means that version 6 introduced backwards-incompatible changes. If
your project depends on web3.py v6, then you’ll probably need to make some changes.
Breaking Changes:

2.17.1 Strict Bytes Checking by Default

web3.py v6 moved to requiring strict bytes checking by default. This means that if an ABI specifies a bytes4 argument,
web3.py will invalidate any entry that is not encodable as a bytes type with length of 4. This means only 0x-prefixed
hex strings with a length of 4 and bytes types with a length of 4 will be considered valid. This removes doubt that
comes from inferring values and assuming they should be padded.
This behavior was previously available in via the w3.enable_strict_bytes_checking() method. This is now,
however, a toggleable flag on the Web3 instance via the w3.strict_bytes_type_checking property. As outlined
above, this property is set to True by default but can be toggled on and off via the property’s setter (e.g. w3.
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2.17.2 Snake Case

web3.py v6 moved to the more Pythonic convention of snake_casing wherever possible. There are some exceptions to
this pattern:
• Contract methods and events use whatever is listed in the ABI. If the smart contract convention is to use camel-
Case for method and event names, web3.py won’t do any magic to convert it to snake_casing.
• Arguments to JSON-RPC methods. For example: transaction and filter parameters still use camelCasing. The
reason for this is primarily due to error messaging. It would be confusing to pass in a snake_cased parameter
and get an error message with a camelCased parameter.
• Data that is returned from JSON-RPC methods. For example: The keys in a transaction receipt will still be
returned as camelCase.

2.17.3 Python 3.10 and 3.11 Support

Support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 is here. In order to support Python 3.10, we had to update the Websockets dependency
to v10+.

2.17.4 Exceptions

Exceptions inherit from a base class

In v5, some web3.py exceptions inherited from AttributeError, namely:

• NoABIFunctionsFound
• NoABIFound
• NoABIEventsFound
Others inherited from ValueError, namely:
• InvalidAddress
• NameNotFound
• LogTopicError
• InvalidEventABI
Now web3.py exceptions inherit from the same base Web3Exception.
As such, any code that was expecting a ValueError or an AttributeError from web3.py must update to expecting
one of the exceptions listed above, or Web3Exception.
Similarly, exceptions raised in the EthPM and ENS modules inherit from the base EthPMException and
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ValidationError

The Python dev tooling ecosystem is moving towards standardizing ValidationError, so users know that they’re
catching the correct ValidationError. The base ValidationError is imported from eth_utils. However, we also
wanted to empower users to catch all errors emitted by a particular module. So we now have a Web3ValidationError,
EthPMValidationError, and an ENSValidationError that all inherit from the generic eth_utils.exceptions.
ValidationError.

Web3 class split into Web3 and AsyncWeb3

The Web3 class previously contained both sync and async methods. We’ve separated Web3 and AsyncWeb3 function-
ality to tighten up typing. For example:

from web3 import Web3, AsyncWeb3

w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider(<provider.url>))
async_w3 = AsyncWeb3(AsyncWeb3.AsyncHTTPProvider(<provider.url>))

dict to AttributeDict conversion moved to middleware

Eth module data returned as key-value pairs was previously automatically converted to an AttributeDict by result for-
matters, which could cause problems with typing. This conversion has been moved to a default attrdict_middleware
where it can be easily removed if necessary. See the Eth module docs for more detail.

Other Misc Changes

• InfuraKeyNotFound exception has been changed to InfuraProjectIdNotFound

• SolidityError has been removed in favor of ContractLogicError
• When a method is unavailable from a node provider (i.e. a response error code of -32601 is returned), a
MethodUnavailable error is now raised instead of ValueError
• Logs’ data field was previously formatted with to_ascii_if_bytes, now formatted to HexBytes
• Receipts’ type field was previously not formatted, now formatted with to_integer_if_hex

2.17.5 Removals

• Removed unused IBAN module

• Removed WEB3_INFURA_API_KEY environment variable in favor of WEB3_INFURA_PROJECT_ID
• Removed Kovan auto provider
• Removed deprecated sha3 and soliditySha3 methods in favor of keccak and solidityKeccak
• Remove Parity Module and References

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2.17.6 Other notable changes

• The ipfshttpclient library is now opt-in via a web3 install extra. This only affects the ethpm ipfs backends,
which rely on the library.

2.18 Migrating your code from v4 to v5

Web3.py follows Semantic Versioning, which means that version 5 introduced backwards-incompatible changes. If
your project depends on Web3.py v4, then you’ll probably need to make some changes.
Here are the most common required updates:

2.18.1 Python 3.5 no longer supported

You will need to upgrade to either Python 3.6 or 3.7

2.18.2 eth-abi v1 no longer supported

You will need to upgrade the eth-abi dependency to v2

2.18.3 Changes to base API

JSON-RPC Updates

In v4, JSON-RPC calls that looked up transactions or blocks and didn’t find them, returned None. Now if a transaction
or block is not found, a BlockNotFound or a TransactionNotFound error will be thrown as appropriate. This applies
to the following web3 methods:
• getTransaction() will throw a TransactionNotFound error
• getTransactionReceipt() will throw a TransactionNotFound error
• getTransactionByBlock() will throw a TransactionNotFound error
• getTransactionCount() will throw a BlockNotFound error
• getBlock() will throw a BlockNotFound error
• getUncleCount() will throw a BlockNotFound error
• getUncleByBlock() will throw a BlockNotFound error

Removed Methods

• contract.buildTransaction was removed for contract.functions.buildTransaction.<method

name>
• contract.deploy was removed for contract.constructor.transact
• contract.estimateGas was removed for contract.functions.<method name>.estimateGas
• contract.call was removed for contract.<functions/events>.<method name>.call
• contract.transact was removed for contract.<functions/events>.<method name>.transact

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• contract.eventFilter was removed for contract.events.<event name>.createFilter

• middleware_stack was renamed to middleware_onion()
• web3.miner.hashrate was a duplicate of hashrate() and was removed.
• web3.version.network was a duplicate of version() and was removed.
• web3.providers.tester.EthereumTesterProvider and web3.providers.tester.TestRPCProvider
have been removed for EthereumTesterProvider()
• web3.eth.enableUnauditedFeatures was removed
• web3.txpool was moved to txpool()
• web3.version.node was removed for web3.clientVersion
• web3.version.ethereum was removed for protocolVersion()
• Relocated personal RPC endpoints to reflect Parity and Geth implementations:
– web3.personal.listAccounts was removed for listAccounts() or listAccounts()
– web3.personal.importRawKey was removed for importRawKey() or importRawKey()
– web3.personal.newAccount was removed for newAccount() or newAccount()
– web3.personal.lockAccount was removed for lockAccount()
– web3.personal.unlockAccount was removed for unlockAccount() or unlockAccount()
– web3.personal.sendTransaction was removed for sendTransaction() or sendTransaction()
• Relocated web3.admin module to web3.geth namespace
• Relocated web3.miner module to web3.geth namespace

Deprecated Methods

Expect the following methods to be removed in v6:

• web3.sha3 was deprecated for keccak()
• web3.soliditySha3 was deprecated for solidityKeccak()
• chainId() was deprecated for chainId(). Follow issue #1293 for details
• web3.eth.getCompilers() was deprecated and will not be replaced
• getTransactionFromBlock() was deprecated for getTransactionByBlock()

Deprecated ConciseContract and ImplicitContract

The ConciseContract and ImplicitContract have been deprecated and will be removed in v6.
ImplicitContract instances will need to use the verbose syntax. For example:
contract.functions.<function name>.transact({})
ConciseContract has been replaced with the ContractCaller API. Instead of using the ConciseContract factory, you can
now use:
contract.caller.<function_name>
or the classic contract syntax:

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contract.functions.<function name>.call().
Some more concrete examples can be found in the ContractCaller docs

Manager Provider

In v5, only a single provider will be allowed. While allowing multiple providers is a feature we’d like to support in
the future, the way that multiple providers was handled in v4 wasn’t ideal. The only thing they could do was fall back.
There was no mechanism for any round robin, nor was there any control around which provider was chosen. Eventually,
the idea is to expand the Manager API to support injecting custom logic into the provider selection process.
For now, manager.providers has changed to manager.provider. Similarly, instances of web3.providers have
been changed to web3.provider.

Testnet Changes

Web3.py will no longer automatically look up a testnet connection in IPCProvider.

2.18.4 ENS

Web3.py has stopped inferring the .eth TLD on domain names. If a domain name is used instead of an address, you’ll
need to specify the TLD. An InvalidTLD error will be thrown if the TLD is missing.

2.18.5 Required Infura API Key

In order to interact with Infura after March 27, 2019, you’ll need to set an environment variable called
WEB3_INFURA_PROJECT_ID. You can get a project id by visiting https://infura.io/register.

2.19 Migrating your code from v3 to v4

Web3.py follows Semantic Versioning, which means that version 4 introduced backwards-incompatible changes. If
your project depends on Web3.py v3, then you’ll probably need to make some changes.
Here are the most common required updates:

2.19.1 Python 2 to Python 3

Only Python 3 is supported in v4. If you are running in Python 2, it’s time to upgrade. We recommend using 2to3
which can make most of your code compatible with Python 3, automatically.
The most important update, relevant to Web3.py, is the new bytes type. It is used regularly, throughout the library,
whenever dealing with data that is not guaranteed to be text.
Many different methods in Web3.py accept text or binary data, like contract methods, transaction details, and crypto-
graphic functions. The following example uses sha3(), but the same pattern applies elsewhere.
In v3 & Python 2, you might have calculated the hash of binary data this way:

>>> Web3.sha3('I\xe2\x99\xa5SF')
'0x50a826df121f4d076a3686d74558f40082a8e70b3469d8e9a16ceb2a79102e5e'

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Or, you might have calculated the hash of text data this way:

>>> Web3.sha3(text=u'ISF')
'0x50a826df121f4d076a3686d74558f40082a8e70b3469d8e9a16ceb2a79102e5e'

After switching to Python 3, these would instead be executed as:

>>> Web3.sha3(b'I\xe2\x99\xa5SF')
HexBytes('0x50a826df121f4d076a3686d74558f40082a8e70b3469d8e9a16ceb2a79102e5e')

>>> Web3.sha3(text='ISF')
HexBytes('0x50a826df121f4d076a3686d74558f40082a8e70b3469d8e9a16ceb2a79102e5e')

Note that the return value is different too: you can treat hexbytes.main.HexBytes like any other bytes value, but the
representation on the console shows you the hex encoding of those bytes, for easier visual comparison.
It takes a little getting used to, but the new py3 types are much better. We promise.

2.19.2 Filters

Filters usually don’t work quite the way that people want them to.
The first step toward fixing them was to simplify them by removing the polling logic. Now, you must request an update
on your filters explicitly. That means that any exceptions during the request will bubble up into your code.
In v3, those exceptions (like “filter is not found”) were swallowed silently in the automated polling logic. Here was the
invocation for printing out new block hashes as they appear:

>>> def new_block_callback(block_hash):

... print(f"New Block: {block_hash}")
...
>>> new_block_filter = web3.eth.filter('latest')
>>> new_block_filter.watch(new_block_callback)

In v4, that same logic:

>>> new_block_filter = web3.eth.filter('latest')

>>> for block_hash in new_block_filter.get_new_entries():
... print(f"New Block: {block_hash}")

The caller is responsible for polling the results from get_new_entries(). See Asynchronous Filter Polling for ex-
amples of filter-event handling with web3 v4.

2.19.3 TestRPCProvider and EthereumTesterProvider

These providers are fairly uncommon. If you don’t recognize the names, you can probably skip the section.
However, if you were using web3.py for testing contracts, you might have been using TestRPCProvider or
EthereumTesterProvider.
In v4 there is a new EthereumTesterProvider, and the old v3 implementation has been removed. Web3.py v4 uses
eth_tester.main.EthereumTester under the hood, instead of eth-testrpc. While eth-tester is still in beta, many
parts are already in better shape than testrpc, so we decided to replace it in v4.
If you were using TestRPC, or were explicitly importing EthereumTesterProvider, like: from web3.providers.
tester import EthereumTesterProvider, then you will need to update.

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With v4 you should import with from web3 import EthereumTesterProvider. As before, you’ll need to install
Web3.py with the tester extra to get these features, like:

$ pip install web3[tester]

2.19.4 Changes to base API convenience methods

Web3.toDecimal()

In v4 Web3.toDecimal() is renamed: toInt() for improved clarity. It does not return a decimal.Decimal, it
returns an int.

Removed Methods

• Web3.toUtf8 was removed for toText().

• Web3.fromUtf8 was removed for toHex().
• Web3.toAscii was removed for toBytes().
• Web3.fromAscii was removed for toHex().
• Web3.fromDecimal was removed for toHex().

Provider Access

In v4, w3.currentProvider was removed, in favor of w3.providers.

Disambiguating String Inputs

There are a number of places where an arbitrary string input might be either a byte-string that has been hex-encoded,
or unicode characters in text. These are named hexstr and text in Web3.py. You specify which kind of str you have
by using the appropriate keyword argument. See examples in Encoding and Decoding Helpers.
In v3, some methods accepted a str as the first positional argument. In v4, you must pass strings as one of hexstr or
text keyword arguments.
Notable methods that no longer accept ambiguous strings:
• sha3()
• toBytes()

2.19.5 Contracts

• When a contract returns the ABI type string, Web3.py v4 now returns a str value by decoding the underlying
bytes using UTF-8.
• When a contract returns the ABI type bytes (of any length), Web3.py v4 now returns a bytes value

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w3.personal.signAndSendTransaction is no longer available. Use w3.personal.sendTransaction() in-

stead.

2.20 Web3 API

• Providers
• Attributes
• Encoding and Decoding Helpers
• Currency Conversions
• Addresses
• Cryptographic Hashing
• Check Encodability
• RPC API Modules
• Custom Methods
• External Modules

class web3.Web3(provider)

Each Web3 instance exposes the following APIs.

2.20.1 Providers

Web3.HTTPProvider
Convenience API to access web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider
Web3.IPCProvider
Convenience API to access web3.providers.ipc.IPCProvider

2.20.2 Attributes

Web3.api
Returns the current Web3 version.

>>> web3.api
"4.7.0"

Web3.client_version

• Delegates to web3_clientVersion RPC Method

Returns the current client version.

>>> web3.client_version
'Geth/v1.4.11-stable-fed692f6/darwin/go1.7'

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2.20.3 Encoding and Decoding Helpers

Web3.to_hex(primitive=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

Takes a variety of inputs and returns it in its hexadecimal representation. It follows the rules for converting to
hex in the JSON-RPC spec

>>> Web3.to_hex(0)
'0x0'
>>> Web3.to_hex(1)
'0x1'
>>> Web3.to_hex(0x0)
'0x0'
>>> Web3.to_hex(0x000F)
'0xf'
>>> Web3.to_hex(b'')
'0x'
>>> Web3.to_hex(b'\x00\x0F')
'0x000f'
>>> Web3.to_hex(False)
'0x0'
>>> Web3.to_hex(True)
'0x1'
>>> Web3.to_hex(hexstr='0x000F')
'0x000f'
>>> Web3.to_hex(hexstr='000F')
'0x000f'
>>> Web3.to_hex(text='')
'0x'
>>> Web3.to_hex(text='cowmö')
'0x636f776dc3b6'

Web3.to_text(primitive=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

Takes a variety of inputs and returns its string equivalent. Text gets decoded as UTF-8.

>>> Web3.to_text(0x636f776dc3b6)
'cowmö'
>>> Web3.to_text(b'cowm\xc3\xb6')
'cowmö'
>>> Web3.to_text(hexstr='0x636f776dc3b6')
'cowmö'
>>> Web3.to_text(hexstr='636f776dc3b6')
'cowmö'
>>> Web3.to_text(text='cowmö')
'cowmö'

Web3.to_bytes(primitive=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

Takes a variety of inputs and returns its bytes equivalent. Text gets encoded as UTF-8.

>>> Web3.to_bytes(0)
b'\x00'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(0x000F)
b'\x0f'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(b'')
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b''
>>> Web3.to_bytes(b'\x00\x0F')
b'\x00\x0f'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(False)
b'\x00'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(True)
b'\x01'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(hexstr='0x000F')
b'\x00\x0f'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(hexstr='000F')
b'\x00\x0f'
>>> Web3.to_bytes(text='')
b''
>>> Web3.to_bytes(text='cowmö')
b'cowm\xc3\xb6'

Web3.to_int(primitive=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

Takes a variety of inputs and returns its integer equivalent.

>>> Web3.to_int(0)
0
>>> Web3.to_int(0x000F)
15
>>> Web3.to_int(b'\x00\x0F')
15
>>> Web3.to_int(False)
0
>>> Web3.to_int(True)
1
>>> Web3.to_int(hexstr='0x000F')
15
>>> Web3.to_int(hexstr='000F')
15

Web3.to_json(obj)
Takes a variety of inputs and returns its JSON equivalent.

>>> Web3.to_json(3)
'3'
>>> Web3.to_json({'one': 1})
'{"one": 1}'

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2.20.4 Currency Conversions

Web3.to_wei(value, currency)
Returns the value in the denomination specified by the currency argument converted to wei.

>>> Web3.to_wei(1, 'ether')

1000000000000000000

Web3.from_wei(value, currency)
Returns the value in wei converted to the given currency. The value is returned as a Decimal to ensure precision
down to the wei.

>>> Web3.from_wei(1000000000000000000, 'ether')

Decimal('1')

2.20.5 Addresses

Web3.is_address(value)
Returns True if the value is one of the recognized address formats.
• Allows for both 0x prefixed and non-prefixed values.
• If the address contains mixed upper and lower cased characters this function also checks if the address
checksum is valid according to EIP55

>>> Web3.is_address('0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601')
True

Web3.is_checksum_address(value)
Returns True if the value is a valid EIP55 checksummed address

>>> Web3.is_checksum_address('0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601')
True
>>> Web3.is_checksum_address('0xd3cda913deb6f67967b99d67acdfa1712c293601')
False

Web3.to_checksum_address(value)
Returns the given address with an EIP55 checksum.

>>> Web3.to_checksum_address('0xd3cda913deb6f67967b99d67acdfa1712c293601')
'0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601'

2.20.6 Cryptographic Hashing

classmethod Web3.keccak(primitive=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

Returns the Keccak-256 of the given value. Text is encoded to UTF-8 before computing the hash, just like
Solidity. Any of the following are valid and equivalent:

>>> Web3.keccak(0x747874)
>>> Web3.keccak(b'\x74\x78\x74')
>>> Web3.keccak(hexstr='0x747874')
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>>> Web3.keccak(hexstr='747874')
>>> Web3.keccak(text='txt')
HexBytes('0xd7278090a36507640ea6b7a0034b69b0d240766fa3f98e3722be93c613b29d2e')

classmethod Web3.solidity_keccak(abi_types, value)

Returns the Keccak-256 as it would be computed by the solidity keccak function on a packed ABI encoding of
the value list contents. The abi_types argument should be a list of solidity type strings which correspond to
each of the provided values.

>>> Web3.solidity_keccak(['bool'], [True])

HexBytes("0x5fe7f977e71dba2ea1a68e21057beebb9be2ac30c6410aa38d4f3fbe41dcffd2")

>>> Web3.solidity_keccak(['uint8', 'uint8', 'uint8'], [97, 98, 99])

HexBytes("0x4e03657aea45a94fc7d47ba826c8d667c0d1e6e33a64a036ec44f58fa12d6c45")

>>> Web3.solidity_keccak(['uint8[]'], [[97, 98, 99]])

HexBytes("0x233002c671295529bcc50b76a2ef2b0de2dac2d93945fca745255de1a9e4017e")

>>> Web3.solidity_keccak(['address'], ["0x49EdDD3769c0712032808D86597B84ac5c2F5614

˓→"])

HexBytes("0x2ff37b5607484cd4eecf6d13292e22bd6e5401eaffcc07e279583bc742c68882")

>>> Web3.solidity_keccak(['address'], ["ethereumfoundation.eth"])

HexBytes("0x913c99ea930c78868f1535d34cd705ab85929b2eaaf70fcd09677ecd6e5d75e9")

Comparable solidity usage:

bytes32 data1 = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(true));

assert(data1 == hex"5fe7f977e71dba2ea1a68e21057beebb9be2ac30c6410aa38d4f3fbe41dcffd2
˓→");

bytes32 data2 = keccak256(abi.encodePacked(uint8(97), uint8(98), uint8(99)));

assert(data2 == hex"4e03657aea45a94fc7d47ba826c8d667c0d1e6e33a64a036ec44f58fa12d6c45
˓→");

2.20.7 Check Encodability

w3.is_encodable(_type, value)
Returns True if a value can be encoded as the given type. Otherwise returns False.

>>> from web3.auto.gethdev import w3

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'12')
True
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', '0x1234')
True
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', '1234') # not 0x-prefixed, no assumptions␣
˓→will be made

False
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1') # does not match specified bytes size
False
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'123') # does not match specified bytes size
False

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w3.strict_bytes_type_checking
Disable the stricter bytes type checking that is loaded by default. For more examples, see Disabling Strict Checks
for Bytes Types

>>> from web3.auto.gethdev import w3

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'12')

True

>>> # not of exact size bytes2

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
False

>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = False

>>> # zero-padded, so encoded to: b'1\x00'

>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
True

>>> # re-enable it
>>> w3.strict_bytes_type_checking = True
>>> w3.is_encodable('bytes2', b'1')
False

2.20.8 RPC API Modules

Each Web3 instance also exposes these namespaced API modules.

Web3.eth
See web3.eth API
Web3.miner
See Miner API
Web3.pm
See Package Manager API
Web3.geth
See Geth API
These internal modules inherit from the web3.module.Module class which give them some configurations internal to
the web3.py library.

2.20.9 Custom Methods

You may add or overwrite methods within any module using the attach_methods function. To create a property
instead, set is_property to True.

>>> w3.eth.attach_methods({
... 'example_method': Method(
... 'eth_example',
... mungers=[...],
... request_formatters=[...],
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... result_formatters=[...],
... is_property=False,
... ),
... })
>>> w3.eth.example_method()

2.20.10 External Modules

External modules can be used to introduce custom or third-party APIs to your Web3 instance. External modules are
simply classes whose methods and properties can be made available within the Web3 instance. Optionally, the external
module may make use of the parent Web3 instance by accepting it as the first argument within the __init__ function:

>>> class ExampleModule:

... def __init__(self, w3):
... self.w3 = w3
...
... def print_balance_of_shaq(self):
... print(self.w3.eth.get_balance('shaq.eth'))

Warning: Given the flexibility of external modules, use caution and only import modules from trusted third parties
and open source code you’ve vetted!

Configuring external modules can occur either at instantiation of the Web3 instance or by making use of the
attach_modules() method. To instantiate the Web3 instance with external modules use the external_modules
keyword argument:

>>> from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider

>>> from external_module_library import (
... ModuleClass1,
... ModuleClass2,
... ModuleClass3,
... ModuleClass4,
... ModuleClass5,
... )
>>> w3 = Web3(
... HTTPProvider(provider_uri),
... external_modules={
... 'module1': ModuleClass1,
... 'module2': (ModuleClass2, {
... 'submodule1': ModuleClass3,
... 'submodule2': (ModuleClass4, {
... 'submodule2a': ModuleClass5, # submodule children may be nested␣
˓→further if necessary

... })
... })
... }
... )

# `return_zero`, in this case, is an example attribute of the `ModuleClass1` object

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>>> w3.module1.return_zero()
0
>>> w3.module2.submodule1.return_one()
1
>>> w3.module2.submodule2.submodule2a.return_two()
2

w3.attach_modules(modules)
The attach_modules() method can be used to attach external modules after the Web3 instance has been in-
stantiated.
Modules are attached via a dict with module names as the keys. The values can either be the module classes
themselves, if there are no submodules, or two-item tuples with the module class as the 0th index and a similarly
built dict containing the submodule information as the 1st index. This pattern may be repeated as necessary.

>>> from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider

>>> from external_module_library import (
... ModuleClass1,
... ModuleClass2,
... ModuleClass3,
... ModuleClass4,
... ModuleClass5,
... )
>>> w3 = Web3(HTTPProvider(provider_uri))

>>> w3.attach_modules({
... 'module1': ModuleClass1, # the module class itself may be used for a␣
˓→single module with no submodules

... 'module2': (ModuleClass2, { # a tuple with module class and corresponding␣

˓→submodule dict may be used for modules with submodules

... 'submodule1': ModuleClass3,

... 'submodule2': (ModuleClass4, { # this pattern may be repeated as␣
˓→necessary

... 'submodule2a': ModuleClass5,

... })
... })
... })
>>> w3.module1.return_zero()
0
>>> w3.module2.submodule1.return_one()
1
>>> w3.module2.submodule2.submodule2a.return_two()
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2.21 web3.eth API

Warning: Whoa there, Binance Smart Chain user! web3.py is an Ethereum-specific library, which now defaults to
“type 2” transactions as of the London network upgrade. BSC apparently does not support these newer transaction
types.
From issues opened, it seems BSC transactions must include gasPrice, but not type, maxFeePerGas, or
maxPriorityFeePerGas. If you have trouble beyond that, please find an appropriate BSC forum to raise your
question.

class web3.eth.Eth

The web3.eth object exposes the following properties and methods to interact with the RPC APIs under the eth_
namespace.
By default, when a property or method returns a mapping of keys to values, it will return an AttributeDict which
acts like a dict but you can access the keys as attributes and cannot modify its fields. For example, you can find the
latest block number in these two ways:

>>> block = web3.eth.get_block('latest')

AttributeDict({
'hash': '0xe8ad537a261e6fff80d551d8d087ee0f2202da9b09b64d172a5f45e818eb472a',
'number': 4022281,
# ... etc ...
})

>>> block['number']
4022281
>>> block.number
4022281

>>> block.number = 4022282

Traceback # ... etc ...
TypeError: This data is immutable -- create a copy instead of modifying

This feature is available via the attrdict_middleware which is a default middleware.

Note: Accessing an AttributeDict property via attribute will break type hinting. If typing is crucial for your
application, accessing via key / value, as well as removing the attrdict_middleware altogether, may be desired.

2.21.1 Properties

The following properties are available on the web3.eth namespace.

Eth.default_account
The ethereum address that will be used as the default from address for all transactions. Defaults to empty.
Eth.default_block
The default block number that will be used for any RPC methods that accept a block identifier. Defaults to
'latest'.

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Eth.syncing

• Delegates to eth_syncing RPC Method

Returns either False if the node is not syncing or a dictionary showing sync status.

>>> web3.eth.syncing
AttributeDict({
'currentBlock': 2177557,
'highestBlock': 2211611,
'knownStates': 0,
'pulledStates': 0,
'startingBlock': 2177365,
})

Eth.coinbase

• Delegates to eth_coinbase RPC Method

Returns the current Coinbase address.

>>> web3.eth.coinbase
'0xC014BA5EC014ba5ec014Ba5EC014ba5Ec014bA5E'

Eth.mining

• Delegates to eth_mining RPC Method

Returns boolean as to whether the node is currently mining.

>>> web3.eth.mining
False

Eth.hashrate

• Delegates to eth_hashrate RPC Method

Returns the current number of hashes per second the node is mining with.

>>> web3.eth.hashrate
906

Eth.max_priority_fee

• Delegates to eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas RPC Method

Returns a suggestion for a max priority fee for dynamic fee transactions in Wei.

>>> web3.eth.max_priority_fee
2000000000

Eth.gas_price

• Delegates to eth_gasPrice RPC Method

Returns the current gas price in Wei.

>>> web3.eth.gas_price
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Eth.accounts

• Delegates to eth_accounts RPC Method

Returns the list of known accounts.

>>> web3.eth.accounts
['0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD']

Eth.block_number

• Delegates to eth_blockNumber RPC Method

Returns the number of the most recent block
Alias for get_block_number()

>>> web3.eth.block_number
2206939

Eth.chain_id

• Delegates to eth_chainId RPC Method

Returns an integer value for the currently configured “Chain Id” value introduced in EIP-155. Returns
None if no Chain Id is available.

>>> web3.eth.chain_id
61

Note: This property gets called frequently in validation middleware, but chain_id is added to the
simple_cache_middleware by default. Add the simple_cache_middleware to the middleware_onion
to increase performance:

>>> from web3.middleware import simple_cache_middleware

>>> w3.middleware_onion.add(simple_cache_middleware)

2.21.2 Methods

The following methods are available on the web3.eth namespace.

Eth.get_balance(account, block_identifier=eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_getBalance RPC Method

Returns the balance of the given account at the block specified by block_identifier.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name

>>> web3.eth.get_balance('0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601')
77320681768999138915

Eth.get_block_number()

• Delegates to eth_blockNumber RPC Method

Returns the number of the most recent block.

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>>> web3.eth.get_block_number()
2206939

Eth.get_storage_at(account, position, block_identifier=eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_getStorageAt RPC Method

Returns the value from a storage position for the given account at the block specified by block_identifier.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name
>>> web3.eth.get_storage_at('0x6C8f2A135f6ed072DE4503Bd7C4999a1a17F824B', 0)
'0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000120a0b063499d4'

Eth.get_proof(account, positions, block_identifier=eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_getProof RPC Method

Returns the values from an array of storage positions for the given account at the block specified by
block_identifier.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name
>>> web3.eth.get_proof('0x6C8f2A135f6ed072DE4503Bd7C4999a1a17F824B', [0], 3391)
AttributeDict({
'address': '0x4CB06C43fcdABeA22541fcF1F856A6a296448B6c',
'accountProof': [
˓→'0xf90211a03841a7ddd65c70c94b8efa79190d00f0ab134b26f18dcad508f60a7e74559d0ba0464b07429a05039e2293

˓→',

˓→'0xf90151a097b17a89fd2c03ee98cb6459c08f51b269da5cee46650e84470f62bf83b43efe80a03b269d284a4c3cf8f8
˓→',

˓→'0xf869a020d13b52a61d3c1325ce3626a51418adebd6323d4840f1bdd93906359d11c933b846f8440180a01ab7c0b0a2
˓→'
],
'balance': 0,
'codeHash': '0x551332d96d085185ab4019ad8bcf89c45321e136c261eb6271e574a2edf1461f
˓→',

'nonce': 1,
'storageHash':
˓→'0x1ab7c0b0a2a4bbb5a1495da8c142150891fc64e0c321e1feb70bd5f881951f7e',

'storageProof': [
AttributeDict({
'key': '0x00',
'value':
˓→'0x48656c6c6f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000a',

'proof': [
˓→'0xf9019180a01ace80e7bed79fbadbe390876bd1a7d9770edf9462049ef8f4b555d05715d53ea049347a3c2eac6525a3

˓→',

˓→'0xf891808080a0c7d094301e0c54da37b696d85f72de5520b224ab2cf4f045d8db1a3374caf0488080a0fc5581783bfe
˓→',

˓→'0xf843a0200decd9548b62a8d60345a988386fc84ba6bc95484008f6362f93160ef3e563a1a048656c6c6f0000000000
˓→'
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]
})
]
})

• Merkle proof verification using py-trie.

The following example verifies that the values returned in the AttributeDict are included in the state of given
trie root.
from eth_utils import (
keccak,
)
import rlp
from rlp.sedes import (
Binary,
big_endian_int,
)
from trie import (
HexaryTrie,
)
from web3._utils.encoding import (
pad_bytes,
)

def format_proof_nodes(proof):
trie_proof = []
for rlp_node in proof:
trie_proof.append(rlp.decode(bytes(rlp_node)))
return trie_proof

def verify_eth_get_proof(proof, root):

trie_root = Binary.fixed_length(32, allow_empty=True)
hash32 = Binary.fixed_length(32)

class _Account(rlp.Serializable):
fields = [
('nonce', big_endian_int),
('balance', big_endian_int),
('storage', trie_root),
('code_hash', hash32)
]
acc = _Account(
proof.nonce, proof.balance, proof.storageHash, proof.codeHash
)
rlp_account = rlp.encode(acc)
trie_key = keccak(bytes.fromhex(proof.address[2:]))

assert rlp_account == HexaryTrie.get_from_proof(

root, trie_key, format_proof_nodes(proof.accountProof)
), f"Failed to verify account proof {proof.address}"

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for storage_proof in proof.storageProof:
trie_key = keccak(pad_bytes(b'\x00', 32, storage_proof.key))
root = proof.storageHash
if storage_proof.value == b'\x00':
rlp_value = b''
else:
rlp_value = rlp.encode(storage_proof.value)

assert rlp_value == HexaryTrie.get_from_proof(

root, trie_key, format_proof_nodes(storage_proof.proof)
), f"Failed to verify storage proof {storage_proof.key}"

return True

block = w3.eth.get_block(3391)
proof = w3.eth.get_proof('0x6C8f2A135f6ed072DE4503Bd7C4999a1a17F824B', [0, 1], 3391)
assert verify_eth_get_proof(proof, block.stateRoot)

Eth.get_code(account, block_identifier=eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_getCode RPC Method

Returns the bytecode for the given account at the block specified by block_identifier.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name

# For a contract address.

>>> web3.eth.get_code('0x6C8f2A135f6ed072DE4503Bd7C4999a1a17F824B')
'0x6060604052361561027c5760e060020a60003504630199.....'
# For a private key address.
>>> web3.eth.get_code('0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601')
'0x'

Eth.get_block(block_identifier=eth.default_block, full_transactions=False)

• Delegates to eth_getBlockByNumber or eth_getBlockByHash RPC Methods

Returns the block specified by block_identifier. Delegates to eth_getBlockByNumber if
block_identifier is an integer or one of the predefined block parameters 'latest', 'earliest',
'pending', 'safe', 'finalized' - otherwise delegates to eth_getBlockByHash. Throws
BlockNotFound error if the block is not found.
If full_transactions is True then the 'transactions' key will contain full transactions objects. Otherwise
it will be an array of transaction hashes.

>>> web3.eth.get_block(2000000)
AttributeDict({
'difficulty': 49824742724615,
'extraData': '0xe4b883e5bda9e7a59ee4bb99e9b1bc',
'gasLimit': 4712388,
'gasUsed': 21000,
'hash': '0xc0f4906fea23cf6f3cce98cb44e8e1449e455b28d684dfa9ff65426495584de6',
'logsBloom':
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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'miner': '0x61c808d82a3ac53231750dadc13c777b59310bd9',
'nonce': '0x3b05c6d5524209f1',
'number': 2000000,
'parentHash':
˓→'0x57ebf07eb9ed1137d41447020a25e51d30a0c272b5896571499c82c33ecb7288',

'receiptsRoot':
˓→'0x84aea4a7aad5c5899bd5cfc7f309cc379009d30179316a2a7baa4a2ea4a438ac',

'sha3Uncles':
˓→'0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347',

'size': 650,
'stateRoot': '0x96dbad955b166f5119793815c36f11ffa909859bbfeb64b735cca37cbf10bef1
˓→',

'timestamp': 1470173578,
'totalDifficulty': 44010101827705409388,
'transactions': [
˓→'0xc55e2b90168af6972193c1f86fa4d7d7b31a29c156665d15b9cd48618b5177ef'],

'transactionsRoot':
˓→'0xb31f174d27b99cdae8e746bd138a01ce60d8dd7b224f7c60845914def05ecc58',

'uncles': [],
})

Eth.get_block_transaction_count(block_identifier)

• Delegates to eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber or eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash

RPC Methods
Returns the number of transactions in the block specified by block_identifier. Delegates to
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByNumber if block_identifier is an integer or one of the predefined
block parameters 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', 'safe', 'finalized', otherwise delegates to
eth_getBlockTransactionCountByHash. Throws BlockNotFoundError if transactions are not found.

>>> web3.eth.get_block_transaction_count(46147)
1
>>> web3.eth.get_block_transaction_count(
˓→'0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd') # block␣
˓→46147

Eth.get_uncle_by_block(block_identifier, uncle_index)

• Delegates to eth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex or eth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex RPC

methods
Returns the uncle at the index specified by uncle_index from the block specified by block_identifier.
Delegates to eth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex if block_identifier is an integer or one
of the predefined block parameters 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', otherwise delegates to
eth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex. Throws BlockNotFound if the block is not found.

>>> web3.eth.get_uncle_by_block(56160, 0)
AttributeDict({
'author': '0xbe4532e1b1db5c913cf553be76180c1777055403',
'difficulty': '0x17dd9ca0afe',
'extraData': '0x476574682f686261722f76312e302e312f6c696e75782f676f312e342e32',
'gasLimit': '0x2fefd8',
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'gasUsed': '0x0',
'hash': '0xc78c35720d930f9ef34b4e6fb9d02ffec936f9b02a8f0fa858456e4afd4d5614',
'logsBloom':
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

˓→',

'miner': '0xbe4532e1b1db5c913cf553be76180c1777055403',
'mixHash': '0x041e14603f35a82f6023802fec96ef760433292434a39787514f140950597e5e',
'nonce': '0x5d2b7e3f1af09995',
'number': '0xdb5e',
'parentHash': '0xcc30e8a9b15c548d5bf113c834143a8f0e1909fbfea96b2a208dc154293a78cf
˓→',

'receiptsRoot':
˓→'0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421',

'sealFields': [
˓→'0xa0041e14603f35a82f6023802fec96ef760433292434a39787514f140950597e5e',

˓→'0x885d2b7e3f1af09995'],

'sha3Uncles': '0x1dcc4de8dec75d7aab85b567b6ccd41ad312451b948a7413f0a142fd40d49347
˓→',

'size': None, 'stateRoot':

˓→'0x8ce2b1bf8e25a06a8ca34c647ff5fd0fa48ac725cc07f657ae1645ab8ef68c91',

'timestamp': '0x55c6a972',
'totalDifficulty': '0xce4c4f0a0b810b',
'transactions': [],
'transactionsRoot':
˓→'0x56e81f171bcc55a6ff8345e692c0f86e5b48e01b996cadc001622fb5e363b421',

'uncles': []
})

# You can also refer to the block by hash:

>>> web3.eth.get_uncle_by_block(
˓→'0x685b2226cbf6e1f890211010aa192bf16f0a0cba9534264a033b023d7367b845', 0)

AttributeDict({
...
})

Eth.get_uncle_count(block_identifier)

• Delegates to eth_getUncleCountByBlockHash or eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber RPC meth-

ods
Returns the (integer) number of uncles associated with the block specified by block_identifier. Delegates to
eth_getUncleCountByBlockNumber if block_identifier is an integer or one of the predefined block pa-
rameters 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', otherwise delegates to eth_getUncleCountByBlockHash.
Throws BlockNotFound if the block is not found.

>>> web3.eth.get_uncle_count(56160)
1

# You can also refer to the block by hash:

>>> web3.eth.get_uncle_count(
˓→'0x685b2226cbf6e1f890211010aa192bf16f0a0cba9534264a033b023d7367b845')

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• Delegates to eth_getTransactionByHash RPC Method

Returns the transaction specified by transaction_hash. If the transaction cannot be found throws web3.
exceptions.TransactionNotFound.

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060')

AttributeDict({'blockHash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd'),

'blockNumber': 46147,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gas': 21000,
'gasPrice': 50000000000000,
'hash': HexBytes(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060'),

'input': HexBytes('0x'),
'nonce': 0,
'r': HexBytes(
˓→'0x88ff6cf0fefd94db46111149ae4bfc179e9b94721fffd821d38d16464b3f71d0'),

's': HexBytes(
˓→'0x45e0aff800961cfce805daef7016b9b675c137a6a41a548f7b60a3484c06a33a'),

'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionIndex': 0,
'type': 0,
'v': 28,
'value': 31337
})

Eth.get_raw_transaction(transaction_hash)

• Delegates to eth_getRawTransactionByHash RPC Method

Returns the raw form of transaction specified by transaction_hash.
If no transaction is found, TransactionNotFound is raised.

>>> web3.eth.get_raw_transaction(
˓→'0x86fbfe56cce542ff0a2a2716c31675a0c9c43701725c4a751d20ee2ddf8a733d')

HexBytes(
˓→'0xf86907843b9aca0082520894dc544d1aa88ff8bbd2f2aec754b1f1e99e1812fd018086eecac466e115a0f9db4e2548

˓→')

Eth.get_transaction_by_block(block_identifier, transaction_index)

• Delegates to eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex or eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex

RPC Methods
Returns the transaction at the index specified by transaction_index from the block specified by
block_identifier. Delegates to eth_getTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex if block_identifier
is an integer or one of the predefined block parameters 'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', 'safe',
'finalized', otherwise delegates to eth_getTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex. If a transaction is not
found at specified arguments, throws web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound.

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_by_block(46147, 0)
AttributeDict({
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd
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˓→ ',
'blockNumber': 46147,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gas': 21000,
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': '0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',
'input': '0x',
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
'nonce': 0,
'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionIndex': 0,
'value': 31337,
})
>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_by_block(
˓→'0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd', 0)

AttributeDict({
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd
˓→',

'blockNumber': 46147,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gas': 21000,
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': '0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',
'input': '0x',
'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000,
'nonce': 0,
'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionIndex': 0,
'value': 31337,
})

Eth.get_raw_transaction_by_block(block_identifier, transaction_index)

• Delegates to eth_getRawTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex or
eth_getRawTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex RPC Methods
Returns the raw transaction at the index specified by transaction_index from the block spec-
ified by block_identifier. Delegates to eth_getRawTransactionByBlockNumberAndIndex
if block_identifier is an integer or one of the predefined block parameters
'latest', 'earliest', 'pending', 'safe', 'finalized', otherwise delegates to
eth_getRawTransactionByBlockHashAndIndex. If a transaction is not found at specified arguments,
throws web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound.

>>> web3.eth.get_raw_transaction_by_block('latest', 0)
HexBytes(
˓→'0x02f87582053901843b9aca00843b9aca008301d8a894e2dfcfa89a45abdc3de91f7a2844b276b8451d2e888ac72304

˓→')

>>> web3.eth.get_raw_transaction_by_block(2, 0)
HexBytes(
˓→'0x02f87582053901843b9aca00843b9aca008301d8a894e2dfcfa89a45abdc3de91f7a2844b276b8451d2e888ac72304

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>>> web3.eth.get_raw_transaction_by_block(
˓→'0xca609fb606a04ce6aaec76415cd0b9d8c2bc83ad2a4d17db7fd403ee7d97bf40', 0)

HexBytes(
˓→'0x02f87582053901843b9aca00843b9aca008301d8a894e2dfcfa89a45abdc3de91f7a2844b276b8451d2e888ac72304

˓→')

Eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(transaction_hash, timeout=120, poll_latency=0.1)

Waits for the transaction specified by transaction_hash to be included in a block, then returns its transaction
receipt.
Optionally, specify a timeout in seconds. If timeout elapses before the transaction is added to a block, then
wait_for_transaction_receipt() raises a web3.exceptions.TimeExhausted exception.

>>> web3.eth.wait_for_transaction_receipt(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060')

# If transaction is not yet in a block, time passes, while the thread sleeps...
# ...
# Then when the transaction is added to a block, its receipt is returned:
AttributeDict({
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd
˓→',

'blockNumber': 46147,
'contractAddress': None,
'cumulativeGasUsed': 21000,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gasUsed': 21000,
'logs': [],
'logsBloom': '0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...0000',
'status': 1,
'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionHash':
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',

'transactionIndex': 0,
})

Eth.get_transaction_receipt(transaction_hash)

• Delegates to eth_getTransactionReceipt RPC Method

Returns the transaction receipt specified by transaction_hash. If the transaction cannot be found throws
web3.exceptions.TransactionNotFound.
If status in response equals 1 the transaction was successful. If it is equals 0 the transaction was reverted by
EVM.

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060') # not yet␣
˓→mined

Traceback # ... etc ...

TransactionNotFound: Transaction with hash:␣
˓→0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060 not found.

# wait for it to be mined....

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_receipt(
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˓→ '0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060')
AttributeDict({
'blockHash': '0x4e3a3754410177e6937ef1f84bba68ea139e8d1a2258c5f85db9f1cd715a1bdd
˓→',

'blockNumber': 46147,
'contractAddress': None,
'cumulativeGasUsed': 21000,
'from': '0xA1E4380A3B1f749673E270229993eE55F35663b4',
'gasUsed': 21000,
'logs': [],
'logsBloom': '0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...0000',
'status': 1, # 0 or 1
'to': '0x5DF9B87991262F6BA471F09758CDE1c0FC1De734',
'transactionHash':
˓→'0x5c504ed432cb51138bcf09aa5e8a410dd4a1e204ef84bfed1be16dfba1b22060',

'transactionIndex': 0,
})

Eth.get_transaction_count(account, block_identifier=web3.eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_getTransactionCount RPC Method

Returns the number of transactions that have been sent from account as of the block specified by
block_identifier.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name

>>> web3.eth.get_transaction_count('0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601')
340

Eth.send_transaction(transaction)

• Delegates to eth_sendTransaction RPC Method

Signs and sends the given transaction
The transaction parameter should be a dictionary with the following fields.
• from: bytes or text, checksum address or ENS name - (optional, default: web3.eth.
defaultAccount) The address the transaction is sent from.
• to: bytes or text, checksum address or ENS name - (optional when creating new contract) The address
the transaction is directed to.
• gas: integer - (optional) Integer of the gas provided for the transaction execution. It will return unused
gas.
• maxFeePerGas: integer or hex - (optional) maximum amount you’re willing to pay, inclusive
of baseFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas. The difference between maxFeePerGas and
baseFeePerGas + maxPriorityFeePerGas is refunded to the user.
• maxPriorityFeePerGas: integer or hex - (optional) the part of the fee that goes to the miner
• gasPrice: integer - Integer of the gasPrice used for each paid gas LEGACY - unless you have a good
reason to use gasPrice, use maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas instead.
• value: integer - (optional) Integer of the value send with this transaction
• data: bytes or text - The compiled code of a contract OR the hash of the invoked method signature
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• nonce: integer - (optional) Integer of a nonce. This allows to overwrite your own pending transactions
that use the same nonce.
If the transaction specifies a data value but does not specify gas then the gas value will be populated using
the estimate_gas() function with an additional buffer of 100000 gas up to the gasLimit of the latest block.
In the event that the value returned by estimate_gas() method is greater than the gasLimit a ValueError
will be raised.

# simple example (web3.py and / or client determines gas and fees, typically␣
˓→defaults to a dynamic fee transaction post London fork)

>>> web3.eth.send_transaction({
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 12345
})

# Dynamic fee transaction, introduced by EIP-1559:

HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')
>>> web3.eth.send_transaction({
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 12345,
'gas': 21000,
'maxFeePerGas': web3.to_wei(250, 'gwei'),
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': web3.to_wei(2, 'gwei'),
})
HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')

# Legacy transaction (less efficient)

HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')
>>> web3.eth.send_transaction({
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 12345,
'gas': 21000,
'gasPrice': web3.to_wei(50, 'gwei'),
})
HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')

Eth.sign_transaction(transaction)

• Delegates to eth_signTransaction RPC Method.

Returns a transaction that’s been signed by the node’s private key, but not yet submitted. The signed tx can be
submitted with Eth.send_raw_transaction

>>> signed_txn = w3.eth.sign_transaction(dict(

nonce=w3.eth.get_transaction_count(w3.eth.coinbase),
maxFeePerGas=2000000000,
maxPriorityFeePerGas=1000000000,
gas=100000,
to='0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601',
value=1,
data=b'',
)
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)
b"\xf8d\x80\x85\x040\xe24\x00\x82R\x08\x94\xdcTM\x1a\xa8\x8f\xf8\xbb\xd2\xf2\xae\
˓→xc7T\xb1\xf1\xe9\x9e\x18\x12\xfd\x01\x80\x1b\xa0\x11\r\x8f\xee\x1d\xe5=\xf0\x87\

˓→x0en\xb5\x99\xed;\xf6\x8f\xb3\xf1\xe6,\x82\xdf\xe5\x97lF|\x97%;\x15\xa04P\xb7=*\

˓→xef \t\xf0&\xbc\xbf\tz%z\xe7\xa3~\xb5\xd3\xb7=\xc0v\n\xef\xad+\x98\xe3'" # noqa:␣

˓→E501

Eth.send_raw_transaction(raw_transaction)

• Delegates to eth_sendRawTransaction RPC Method

Sends a signed and serialized transaction. Returns the transaction hash as a HexBytes object.

>>> signed_txn = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(dict(

nonce=w3.eth.get_transaction_count(public_address_of_senders_account),
maxFeePerGas=3000000000,
maxPriorityFeePerGas=2000000000,
gas=100000,
to='0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
value=12345,
data=b'',
type=2, # (optional) the type is now implicitly set based on appropriate␣
˓→transaction params

chainId=1,
),
private_key_for_senders_account,
)
>>> w3.eth.send_raw_transaction(signed_txn.rawTransaction)
HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')

Eth.replace_transaction(transaction_hash, new_transaction)

• Delegates to eth_sendTransaction RPC Method

Sends a transaction that replaces the transaction with transaction_hash.
The transaction_hash must be the hash of a pending transaction.
The new_transaction parameter should be a dictionary with transaction fields as required by
send_transaction(). It will be used to entirely replace the transaction of transaction_hash without using
any of the pending transaction’s values.
If the new_transaction specifies a nonce value, it must match the pending transaction’s nonce.
If the new_transaction specifies maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas values, they must be greater
than the pending transaction’s values for each field, respectively.
• Legacy Transaction Support (Less Efficient - Not Recommended)
If the pending transaction specified a gasPrice value (legacy transaction), the gasPrice value for the
new_transaction must be greater than the pending transaction’s gasPrice.
If the new_transaction does not specify any of gasPrice, maxFeePerGas, or maxPriorityFeePerGas
values, one of the following will happen:
• If the pending transaction has a gasPrice value, this value will be used with a multiplier of 1.125 - This
is typically the minimum gasPrice increase a node requires before it accepts a replacement transaction.

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• If a gas price strategy is set, the gasPrice value from the gas price strategy(See Gas Price API) will be
used.
• If none of the above, the client will ultimately decide appropriate values for maxFeePerGas and
maxPriorityFeePerGas. These will likely be default values and may result in an unsuccessful replace-
ment of the pending transaction.
This method returns the transaction hash of the replacement transaction as a HexBytes object.

>>> tx = web3.eth.send_transaction({
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 1000
})
HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')
>>> web3.eth.replace_transaction(
˓→'0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331', {

'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 2000
})
HexBytes('0x4177e670ec6431606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1528989')

Eth.modify_transaction(transaction_hash, **transaction_params)

• Delegates to eth_sendTransaction RPC Method

Sends a transaction that modifies the transaction with transaction_hash.
transaction_params are keyword arguments that correspond to valid transaction parameters as required by
send_transaction(). The parameter values will override the pending transaction’s values to create the re-
placement transaction to send.
The same validation and defaulting rules of replace_transaction() apply.
This method returns the transaction hash of the newly modified transaction as a HexBytes object.

>>> tx = web3.eth.send_transaction({
'to': '0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
'from': web3.eth.coinbase,
'value': 1000
})
HexBytes('0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331')
>>> web3.eth.modify_transaction(
˓→'0xe670ec64341771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d5145a99d05921026d1527331', value=2000)

HexBytes('0xec6434e6701771606e55d6b4ca35a1a6b75ee3d73315145a921026d15299d05')

Eth.sign(account, data=None, hexstr=None, text=None)

• Delegates to eth_sign RPC Method

Caller must specify exactly one of: data, hexstr, or text.
Signs the given data with the private key of the given account. The account must be unlocked.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name

>>> web3.eth.sign(
'0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
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text='some-text-tö-sign')

˓→'0x1a8bbe6eab8c72a219385681efefe565afd3accee35f516f8edf5ae82208fbd45a58f9f9116d8d88ba40fcd29076d6
˓→'

>>> web3.eth.sign(
'0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
data=b'some-text-t\xc3\xb6-sign')

˓→'0x1a8bbe6eab8c72a219385681efefe565afd3accee35f516f8edf5ae82208fbd45a58f9f9116d8d88ba40fcd29076d6
˓→'

>>> web3.eth.sign(
'0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601',
hexstr='0x736f6d652d746578742d74c3b62d7369676e')

˓→'0x1a8bbe6eab8c72a219385681efefe565afd3accee35f516f8edf5ae82208fbd45a58f9f9116d8d88ba40fcd29076d6
˓→'

Eth.sign_typed_data(account, jsonMessage)

• Delegates to eth_signTypedData RPC Method

Note: eth_signTypedData is not currently supported by any major client (Besu, Erigon, Geth, or Nethermind)

Please note that the jsonMessage argument is the loaded JSON Object and NOT the JSON String itself.
Signs the Structured Data (or Typed Data) with the private key of the given account. The account must
be unlocked.
account may be a checksum address or an ENS name
Eth.call(transaction, block_identifier=web3.eth.default_block, state_override=None, ccip_read_enabled=True)

• Delegates to eth_call RPC Method

Executes the given transaction locally without creating a new transaction on the blockchain. Returns the return
value of the executed contract.
The transaction parameter is handled in the same manner as the send_transaction() method.

>>> myContract.functions.setVar(1).transact()
HexBytes('0x79af0c7688afba7588c32a61565fd488c422da7b5773f95b242ea66d3d20afda')
>>> myContract.functions.getVar().call()
1
# The above call equivalent to the raw call:
>>> web3.eth.call({'value': 0, 'gas': 21736, 'maxFeePerGas': 2000000000,
˓→'maxPriorityFeePerGas': 1000000000, 'to':

˓→'0xc305c901078781C232A2a521C2aF7980f8385ee9', 'data': '0x477a5c98'})

HexBytes('0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001')

In most cases it is better to make contract function call through the web3.contract.Contract interface.
Overriding state is a debugging feature available in Geth clients. View their usage documentation for a list of
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EIP-3668 introduced support for the OffchainLookup revert / CCIP Read support. In order to properly han-
dle a call to a contract function that reverts with an OffchainLookup error for offchain data retrieval, the
ccip_read_enabled flag has been added to the eth_call method. ccip_read_enabled is optional, yielding
the default value for CCIP Read on calls to a global global_ccip_read_enabled flag on the provider which
is set to True by default. This means CCIP Read is enabled by default for calls, as is recommended in EIP-
3668. Therefore, calls to contract functions that revert with an OffchainLookup will be handled appropriately
by default.
The ccip_read_enabled flag on the call will always override the value of the global flag on the provider for
explicit control over specific calls. If the flag on the call is set to False, the call will raise the OffchainLookup
instead of properly handling the exception according to EIP-3668. This may be useful for “preflighting” a trans-
action with a call (see CCIP Read support for offchain lookup within the examples section).
If the function called results in a revert error, a ContractLogicError will be raised. If there is an error
message with the error, web3.py attempts to parse the message that comes back and return it to the user as
the error string. As of v6.3.0, the raw data is also returned and can be accessed via the data attribute on
ContractLogicError.
Eth.create_access_list(transaction, block_identifier=web3.eth.default_block)

• Delegates to eth_createAccessList RPC Method

This method creates an EIP-2930 type accessList based on a given transaction. The accessList con-
tains all storage slots and addresses read and written by the transaction, except for the sender account and the
precompiles. This method uses the same transaction call object and block_identifier object as call().
An accessList can be used to access contracts that became inaccessible due to gas cost increases.
The transaction parameter is handled in the same manner as the send_transaction() method. The optional
block_identifier parameter is a block_number or latest or pending. Default is latest.

>>> w3.eth.create_access_list(
... {
... "to": to_checksum_address("0xF0109fC8DF283027b6285cc889F5aA624EaC1F55"),
... "gasPrice": 10**11,
... "value": 0,
... "data": "0x608060806080608155",
... },
... "pending",
... )
AttributeDict({
'accessList': [
AttributeDict({
'address': '0xde0B295669a9FD93d5F28D9Ec85E40f4cb697BAe',
'storageKeys': [
HexBytes(
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003'),

HexBytes(
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007'),

]
}),
AttributeDict({
'address': '0xBB9bc244D798123fDe783fCc1C72d3Bb8C189413',
'storageKeys': []
}),
],
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})

The method eth_createAccessList returns a list of addresses and storage keys used by the transaction, plus
the gas consumed when the accessList is included. Like eth_estimateGas, this is an estimation; the list
could change when the transaction is actually finalized. Adding an accessList to your transaction does not
necessarily result in lower gas usage compared to a transaction without an accessList.
Eth.fee_history(block_count, newest_block, reward_percentiles=None)

• Delegates to eth_feeHistory RPC Method

Returns transaction fee data for up to 1,024 blocks.
Parameters
• block_count (int or hexstring) – The number of blocks in the requested range. De-
pending on the client, this value should be either a int between 1 and 1024 or a hexstring.
Less than requested may be returned if not all blocks are available.
• newest_block (int or BlockParams) – The newest, highest-numbered, block in the
requested range. This value may be an int or one of the predefined block parameters
'latest', 'earliest', or 'pending'.
• reward_percentiles (List[float] or None) – (optional) A monotonically increasing
list of percentile float values to sample from each block’s effective priority fees per gas in
ascending order, weighted by gas used.
Returns
An AttributeDict containing the following keys:

• oldestBlock (int) – The oldest, lowest-numbered, block in the range requested as a BlockNumber type with
int value.
• baseFeePerGas (List[Wei]) – An array of block base fees per gas. This includes the next block after the
newest of the returned range, because this value can be derived from the newest block. Zeroes are returned
for pre-EIP-1559 blocks.
• gasUsedRatio (List[float]) – An array of gasUsed/gasLimit float values for the requested blocks.
• reward (List[List[Wei]]) – (optional) A two-dimensional array of effective priority fees per gas at the
requested block percentiles.

>>> w3.eth.fee_history(4, 'latest', [10, 90])

AttributeDict({
'oldestBlock': 3,
'reward': [[220, 7145389], [1000000, 6000213], [550, 550], [125, 12345678]],
'baseFeePerGas': [202583058, 177634473, 155594425, 136217133, 119442408],
'gasUsedRatio': [0.007390479689642084, 0.0036988514889990873, 0.
˓→0018512333048507866, 0.00741217041320997]

})

Eth.estimate_gas(transaction, block_identifier=None, state_override=None)

• Delegates to eth_estimateGas RPC Method

Executes the given transaction locally without creating a new transaction on the blockchain. Returns amount of
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The transaction and block_identifier parameters are handled in the same manner as the
send_transaction() method.
The state_override is useful when there is a chain of transaction calls. It overrides state so that the gas
estimate of a transaction is accurate in cases where prior calls produce side effects.

>>> web3.eth.estimate_gas({'to': '0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601', 'from

˓→':web3.eth.coinbase, 'value': 12345})

21000

Eth.generate_gas_price(transaction_params=None)
Uses the selected gas price strategy to calculate a gas price. This method returns the gas price denominated in
wei.
The transaction_params argument is optional however some gas price strategies may require it to be able to
produce a gas price.

>>> web3.eth.generate_gas_price()
20000000000

Note: For information about how gas price can be customized in web3 see Gas Price API.

Eth.set_gas_price_strategy(gas_price_strategy)
Set the selected gas price strategy. It must be a method of the signature (web3, transaction_params) and
return a gas price denominated in wei.

2.21.3 Filters

The following methods are available on the web3.eth object for interacting with the filtering API.
Eth.filter(filter_params)

• Delegates to eth_newFilter, eth_newBlockFilter, and eth_newPendingTransactionFilter RPC

Methods.
This method delegates to one of three RPC methods depending on the value of filter_params.
• If filter_params is the string 'pending' then a new filter is registered using the
eth_newPendingTransactionFilter RPC method. This will create a new filter that will be
called for each new unmined transaction that the node receives.
• If filter_params is the string 'latest' then a new filter is registered using the eth_newBlockFilter
RPC method. This will create a new filter that will be called each time the node receives a new block.
• If filter_params is a dictionary then a new filter is registered using the eth_newFilter RPC method.
This will create a new filter that will be called for all log entries that match the provided filter_params.
This method returns a web3.utils.filters.Filter object which can then be used to either directly fetch the
results of the filter or to register callbacks which will be called with each result of the filter.
When creating a new log filter, the filter_params should be a dictionary with the following keys.
• fromBlock: integer/tag - (optional, default: “latest”) Integer block number, or one of predefined block
identifiers “latest”, “pending”, “earliest”, “safe”, or “finalized”.
• toBlock: integer/tag - (optional, default: “latest”) Integer block number, or one of predefined block
identifiers “latest”, “pending”, “earliest”, “safe”, or “finalized”.

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• address: string or list of strings, each 20 Bytes - (optional) Contract address or a list of addresses
from which logs should originate.
• topics: list of 32 byte strings or null - (optional) Array of topics that should be used for filtering.
Topics are order-dependent. This parameter can also be a list of topic lists in which case filtering will
match any of the provided topic arrays.

Note: Though "latest" and "safe" block identifiers are not yet part of the specifications for eth_newFilter,
they are supported by web3.py and may or may not yield expected results depending on the node being accessed.

See Monitoring Events for more information about filtering.

>>> web3.eth.filter('latest')
<BlockFilter at 0x10b72dc28>
>>> web3.eth.filter('pending')
<TransactionFilter at 0x10b780340>
>>> web3.eth.filter({'fromBlock': 1000000, 'toBlock': 1000100, 'address':
˓→'0x6C8f2A135f6ed072DE4503Bd7C4999a1a17F824B'})

<LogFilter at 0x10b7803d8>

Eth.get_filter_changes(self , filter_id)

• Delegates to eth_getFilterChanges RPC Method.

Returns all new entries which occurred since the last call to this method for the given filter_id

>>> filter = web3.eth.filter()

>>> web3.eth.get_filter_changes(filter.filter_id)
[
{
'address': '0xDc3A9Db694BCdd55EBaE4A89B22aC6D12b3F0c24',
'blockHash':
˓→'0xb72256286ca528e09022ffd408856a73ef90e7216ac560187c6e43b4c4efd2f0',

'blockNumber': 2217196,
'data': '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
˓→',

'logIndex': 0,
'topics': [
˓→'0xe65b00b698ba37c614af350761c735c5f4a82b4ab365a1f1022d49d9dfc8e930',

'0x000000000000000000000000754c50465885f1ed1fa1a55b95ee8ecf3f1f4324',
'0x296c7fb6ccafa3e689950b947c2895b07357c95b066d5cdccd58c301f41359a3'],
'transactionHash':
˓→'0xfe1289fd3915794b99702202f65eea2e424b2f083a12749d29b4dd51f6dce40d',

'transactionIndex': 1,
},
...
]

Eth.get_filter_logs(self , filter_id)

• Delegates to eth_getFilterLogs RPC Method.

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>>> filter = web3.eth.filter()

>>> web3.eth.get_filter_logs(filter.filter_id)
[
{
'address': '0xDc3A9Db694BCdd55EBaE4A89B22aC6D12b3F0c24',
'blockHash':
˓→'0xb72256286ca528e09022ffd408856a73ef90e7216ac560187c6e43b4c4efd2f0',

'blockNumber': 2217196,
'data': '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
˓→',

'logIndex': 0,
'topics': [
˓→'0xe65b00b698ba37c614af350761c735c5f4a82b4ab365a1f1022d49d9dfc8e930',

'0x000000000000000000000000754c50465885f1ed1fa1a55b95ee8ecf3f1f4324',
'0x296c7fb6ccafa3e689950b947c2895b07357c95b066d5cdccd58c301f41359a3'],
'transactionHash':
˓→'0xfe1289fd3915794b99702202f65eea2e424b2f083a12749d29b4dd51f6dce40d',

'transactionIndex': 1,
},
...
]

Eth.uninstall_filter(self , filter_id)

• Delegates to eth_uninstallFilter RPC Method.

Uninstalls the filter specified by the given filter_id. Returns boolean as to whether the filter was successfully
uninstalled.

>>> filter = web3.eth.filter()

>>> web3.eth.uninstall_filter(filter.filter_id)
True
>>> web3.eth.uninstall_filter(filter.filter_id)
False # already uninstalled.

Eth.get_logs(filter_params)
This is the equivalent of: creating a new filter, running get_filter_logs(), and then uninstalling the filter.
See filter() for details on allowed filter parameters.
Eth.submit_hashrate(hashrate, nodeid)

• Delegates to eth_submitHashrate RPC Method

>>> node_id = '59daa26581d0acd1fce254fb7e85952f4c09d0915afd33d3886cd914bc7d283c'

>>> web3.eth.submit_hashrate(5000, node_id)
True

Eth.submit_work(nonce, pow_hash, mix_digest)

• Delegates to eth_submitWork RPC Method.

>>> web3.eth.submit_work(
1,
'0x1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef',
'0xD1FE5700000000000000000000000000D1FE5700000000000000000000000000',
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)
True

2.21.4 Contracts

Eth.contract(address=None, contract_name=None, ContractFactoryClass=Contract,

**contract_factory_kwargs)
If address is provided, then this method will return an instance of the contract defined by abi. The address
may be a checksum string, or an ENS name like 'mycontract.eth'.

from web3 import Web3

w3 = Web3(...)

contract = w3.eth.contract(address='0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD',␣
˓→abi=...)

# alternatively:
contract = w3.eth.contract(address='mycontract.eth', abi=...)

Note: If you use an ENS name to initialize a contract, the contract will be looked up by name on each use. If the
name could ever change maliciously, first Get the Address for an ENS Name, and then create the contract with
the checksum address.

If address is not provided, the newly created contract class will be returned. That class will then be initialized
by supplying the address.

from web3 import Web3

w3 = Web3(...)

Contract = w3.eth.contract(abi=...)

# later, initialize contracts with the same metadata at different addresses:

contract1 = Contract(address='0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD')
contract2 = Contract(address='mycontract.eth')

contract_name will be used as the name of the contract class. If it is None then the name of the
ContractFactoryClass will be used.
ContractFactoryClass will be used as the base Contract class.
The following arguments are accepted for contract class creation.
Parameters
• abi (ABI) – Application Binary Interface. Usually provided since an abi is required to
interact with any contract.
• asm – Asssembly code generated by the compiler
• ast – Abstract Syntax Tree of the contract generated by the compiler

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• bytecode – Bytecode of the contract generated by the compiler

• bytecode_runtime – Bytecode stored at the contract address, excludes the constructor and
initialization code
• clone_bin –
• dev_doc –
• decode_tuples – Optionally convert tuples/structs to named tuples
• interface –
• metadata – Contract Metadata generated by the compiler
• opcodes – Opcodes for the contract generated by the compiler
• src_map –
• src_map_runtime –
• user_doc –
Returns
Instance of the contract
Return type
Contract
Raises
• TypeError – If the address is not provided
• AttributeError – If the contract class is not initialized
See the Contracts documentation for more information about Contracts.
Eth.set_contract_factory(contractFactoryClass)
Modify the default contract factory from Contract to contractFactoryClass. Future calls to Eth.
contract() will then default to contractFactoryClass.

2.22 Beacon API

Warning: This API Is experimental. Client support is incomplete and the API itself is still evolving.

To use this API, you’ll need a beacon node running locally or remotely. To set that up, refer to the documentation of
your specific client.
Once you have a running beacon node, import and configure your beacon instance:

>>> from web3.beacon import Beacon

>>> beacon = Beacon("http://localhost:5051")

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2.22.1 Methods

Beacon.get_genesis()

>>> beacon.get_genesis()
{
'data': {
'genesis_time': '1605700807',
'genesis_validators_root':
˓→'0x9436e8a630e3162b7ed4f449b12b8a5a368a4b95bc46b941ae65c11613bfa4c1',

'genesis_fork_version': '0x00002009'
}
}

Beacon.get_hash_root(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_hash_root()
{
"data": {
"root":"0xbb399fda70617a6f198b3d9f1c1cdbd70077677231b84f34e58568c9dc903558"
}
}

Beacon.get_fork_data(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_fork_data()
{
'data': {
'previous_version': '0x00002009',
'current_version': '0x00002009',
'epoch': '0'
}
}

Beacon.get_finality_checkpoint(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_finality_checkpoint()
{
'data': {
'previous_justified': {
'epoch': '5024',
'root': '0x499ba555e8e8be639dd84be1be6d54409738facefc662f37d97065aa91a1a8d4'
},
'current_justified': {
'epoch': '5025',
'root': '0x34e8a230f11536ab2ec56a0956e1f3b3fd703861f96d4695877eaa48fbacc241'
},
'finalized': {
'epoch': '5024',
'root': '0x499ba555e8e8be639dd84be1be6d54409738facefc662f37d97065aa91a1a8d4'
}
}
}

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Beacon.get_validators(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_validators()
{
'data': [
{
'index': '110280',
'balance': '32000000000',
'status': 'pending_queued',
'validator': {
'pubkey':
˓→'0x99d37d1f7dd15859995330f75c158346f86d298e2ffeedfbf1b38dcf3df89a7dbd1b34815f3bcd1b2a5588592a35b7

˓→',

'withdrawal_credentials':
˓→'0x00f338cfdb0c22bb85beed9042bd19fff58ad6421c8a833f8bc902b7cca06f5f',

'effective_balance': '32000000000',
'slashed': False,
'activation_eligibility_epoch': '5029',
'activation_epoch': '18446744073709551615',
'exit_epoch': '18446744073709551615',
'withdrawable_epoch': '18446744073709551615'
}
},
...
]
}

Beacon.get_validator(validator_id, state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_validator(110280)
{
'data': {
'index': '110280',
'balance': '32000000000',
'status': 'pending_queued',
'validator': {
'pubkey':
˓→'0x99d37d1f7dd15859995330f75c158346f86d298e2ffeedfbf1b38dcf3df89a7dbd1b34815f3bcd1b2a5588592a35b7

˓→',

'withdrawal_credentials':
˓→'0x00f338cfdb0c22bb85beed9042bd19fff58ad6421c8a833f8bc902b7cca06f5f',

'effective_balance': '32000000000',
'slashed': False,
'activation_eligibility_epoch': '5029',
'activation_epoch': '18446744073709551615',
'exit_epoch': '18446744073709551615',
'withdrawable_epoch': '18446744073709551615'
}
}
}

Beacon.get_validator_balances(state_id='head')

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>>> beacon.get_validator_balances()
{
'data': [
{
'index': '110278',
'balance': '32000000000'
},
...
]
}

Beacon.get_epoch_committees(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_epoch_committees()
{
'data': [
{
'slot': '162367',
'index': '25',
'validators': ['50233', '36829', '84635', ...],
},
...
]
}

Beacon.get_block_headers()

>>> beacon.get_block_headers()
{
'data': [
{
'root': '0xa3873e7b1e0bcc7c59013340cfea59dff16e42e79825e7b8ab6c243dbafd4fe0',
'canonical': True,
'header': {
'message': {
'slot': '163587',
'proposer_index': '69198',
'parent_root':
˓→'0xc32558881dbb791ef045c48e3709a0978dc445abee4ae34d30df600eb5fbbb3d',

'state_root':
˓→'0x4dc0a72959803a84ee0231160b05dda76a91b8f8b77220b4cfc7db160840b8a8',

'body_root':
˓→'0xa3873e7b1e0bcc7c59013340cfea59dff16e42e79825e7b8ab6c243dbafd4fe0'

},
'signature':
˓→'0x87b549448d36e5e8b1783944b5511a05f34bb78ad3fcbf71a1adb346eed363d46e50d51ac53cd23bd03d0107d064e0

˓→'

}
}
]
}

Beacon.get_block_header(block_id)

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>>> beacon.get_block_header(1)
{
'data': {
root': '0x30c04689dd4f6cd4d56eb78f72727d2d16d8b6346724e4a88f546875f11b750d',
'canonical': True,
'header': {
'message': {
'slot': '1',
'proposer_index': '61090',
'parent_root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87',

'state_root':
˓→'0x7773ed5a7e944c6238cd0a5c32170663ef2be9efc594fb43ad0f07ecf4c09d2b',

'body_root':
˓→'0x30c04689dd4f6cd4d56eb78f72727d2d16d8b6346724e4a88f546875f11b750d'

},
'signature':
˓→'0xa30d70b3e62ff776fe97f7f8b3472194af66849238a958880510e698ec3b8a470916680b1a82f9d4753c023153fbe6

˓→'

}
}
}

Beacon.get_block(block_id)

>>> beacon.get_block(1)
{
'data': {
'message': {
'slot': '1',
'proposer_index': '61090',
'parent_root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87',

'state_root':
˓→'0x7773ed5a7e944c6238cd0a5c32170663ef2be9efc594fb43ad0f07ecf4c09d2b',

'body': {
'randao_reveal':
˓→'0x8e245a52a0a680fcfe789013e123880c321f237de10cad108dc55dd47290d7cfe50cdaa003c6f783405efdac48cef4

˓→',

'eth1_data': {
'deposit_root':
˓→'0x4e910ac762815c13e316e72506141f5b6b441d58af8e0a049cd3341c25728752',

'deposit_count': '100596',
'block_hash':
˓→'0x89cb78044843805fb4dab8abd743fc96c2b8e955c58f9b7224d468d85ef57130'

},
'graffiti':
˓→'0x74656b752f76302e31322e31342b34342d673863656562663600000000000000',

'proposer_slashings': [],
'attester_slashings': [],
'attestations': [
{
'aggregation_bits': '0x0080020004000000008208000102000905',
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'data': {
'slot': '0',
'index': '7',
'beacon_block_root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87',

'source': {
'epoch': '0',
'root':
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'

},
'target': {
'epoch': '0',
'root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87'

}
},
'signature':
˓→'0x967dd2946358db7e426ed19d4576bc75123520ef6a489ca50002222070ee4611f9cef394e5e3071236a93b825f18a4

˓→'

}
],
'deposits': [],
'voluntary_exits': []
}
},
'signature':
˓→'0xa30d70b3e62ff776fe97f7f8b3472194af66849238a958880510e698ec3b8a470916680b1a82f9d4753c023153fbe6

˓→'

}
}

Beacon.get_block_root(block_id)

>>> beacon.get_block_root(1)
{
'data': {
'root': '0x30c04689dd4f6cd4d56eb78f72727d2d16d8b6346724e4a88f546875f11b750d'
}
}

Beacon.get_block_attestations(block_id)

>>> beacon.get_block_attestations(1)
{
'data': [
{
'aggregation_bits': '0x0080020004000000008208000102000905',
'data': {
'slot': '0',
'index': '7',
'beacon_block_root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87',

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'source': {
'epoch': '0',
'root':
˓→'0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'

},
'target': {
'epoch': '0',
'root':
˓→'0x6a89af5df908893eedbed10ba4c13fc13d5653ce57db637e3bfded73a987bb87'

}
},
'signature':
˓→'0x967dd2946358db7e426ed19d4576bc75123520ef6a489ca50002222070ee4611f9cef394e5e3071236a93b825f18a4

˓→'

},
...
]
}

Beacon.get_attestations()

>>> beacon.get_attestations()
{'data': []}

Beacon.get_attester_slashings()

>>> beacon.get_attester_slashings()
{'data': []}

Beacon.get_proposer_slashings()

>>> beacon.get_proposer_slashings()
{'data': []}

Beacon.get_voluntary_exits()

>>> beacon.get_voluntary_exits()
{'data': []}

Beacon.get_fork_schedule()

>>> beacon.get_fork_schedule()
{
'data': [
{
'previous_version': '0x00002009',
'current_version': '0x00002009',
'epoch': '0'
}
]
}

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Beacon.get_spec()

>>> beacon.get_spec()
{
'data': {
'DEPOSIT_CONTRACT_ADDRESS': '0x8c5fecdC472E27Bc447696F431E425D02dd46a8c',
'MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY': '1',
'SLOTS_PER_EPOCH': '32',
'SHUFFLE_ROUND_COUNT': '90',
'MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE': '32000000000',
'DOMAIN_BEACON_PROPOSER': '0x00000000',
'MAX_ATTESTER_SLASHINGS': '2',
'DOMAIN_SELECTION_PROOF': '0x05000000',
...
}
}

Beacon.get_deposit_contract()

>>> beacon.get_deposit_contract()
{
'data': {
'chain_id': '5',
'address': '0x8c5fecdC472E27Bc447696F431E425D02dd46a8c'
}
}

Beacon.get_beacon_state(state_id='head')

>>> beacon.get_beacon_state()
{
'data': {
'genesis_time': '1',
'genesis_validators_root':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2',

'slot': '1',
'fork': {
'previous_version': '0x00000000',
'current_version': '0x00000000',
'epoch': '1'
},
'latest_block_header': {
'slot': '1',
'proposer_index': '1',
'parent_root':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2',

'state_root':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2',

'body_root':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2'

},
'block_roots': [
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2'],

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'state_roots': [
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2'],

'historical_roots': [
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2'],

'eth1_data': {
'deposit_root':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2',

'deposit_count': '1',
'block_hash':
˓→'0xcf8e0d4e9587369b2301d0790347320302cc0943d5a1884560367e8208d920f2'

},
'eth1_data_votes': [...],
'eth1_deposit_index': '1',
'validators': [...],
'balances': [...],
'randao_mixes': [...],
'slashings': [...],
'previous_epoch_attestations': [...],
'current_epoch_attestations': [...],
'justification_bits': '0x0f',
'previous_justified_checkpoint': {
'epoch': '5736',
'root': '0xec7ef54f1fd81bada8170dd0cb6be8216f8ee2f445e6936f95f5c6894a4a3b38'
},
'current_justified_checkpoint': {
'epoch': '5737',
'root': '0x781f0166e34c361ce2c88070c1389145abba2836edcb446338a2ca2b0054826e'
},
'finalized_checkpoint': {
'epoch': '5736',
'root': '0xec7ef54f1fd81bada8170dd0cb6be8216f8ee2f445e6936f95f5c6894a4a3b38'
}
}
}

Beacon.get_beacon_heads()

>>> beacon.get_beacon_heads()
{
'data': [
{
'slot': '221600',
'root': '0x9987754077fe6100a60c75d81a51b1ef457d019404d1546a66f4f5d6c23fae45'
}
]
}

Beacon.get_node_identity()

>>> beacon.get_node_identity()
{
'data': {
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'peer_id': '16Uiu2HAmLZ1CYVFKpa3wwn4cnknZqosum8HX3GHDhUpEULQc9ixE',
'enr': 'enr:-KG4QCIp6eCZ6hG_
˓→fd93qsw12qmbfsl2rUTfQvwVP4FOTlWeNXYo0Gg9y3WVYIdF6FQC6R0E8CbK0Ywq_

˓→6TKMx1BpGlAhGV0aDKQOwiHlQAAIAn__________4JpZIJ2NIJpcIR_

˓→AAABiXNlY3AyNTZrMaEDdVT4g1gw86BfbrtLCq2fRBlG0AnMxsXtAQgA327S5FeDdGNwgiMog3VkcIIjKA

˓→',

'p2p_addresses': ['/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/9000/p2p/
˓→16Uiu2HAmLZ1CYVFKpa3wwn4cnknZqosum8HX3GHDhUpEULQc9ixE'],

'discovery_addresses': ['/ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/9000/p2p/
˓→16Uiu2HAmLZ1CYVFKpa3wwn4cnknZqosum8HX3GHDhUpEULQc9ixE'],

'metadata': {'seq_number': '0', 'attnets': '0x0000000000000000'}

}
}

Beacon.get_peers()

>>> beacon.get_peers()
{
'data': [
{
'peer_id': '16Uiu2HAkw1yVqF3RtMCBHMbkLZbNhfGcTUdD6Uo4X3wfzPhGVnqv',
'address': '/ip4/3.127.23.51/tcp/9000',
'state': 'connected',
'direction': 'outbound'
},
{
'peer_id': '16Uiu2HAmEJHiCzgS8GwiEYLyM3d148mzvZ9iZzsz8yqayWVPANMG',
'address': '/ip4/3.88.7.240/tcp/9000',
'state': 'connected',
'direction': 'outbound'
}
]
}

Beacon.get_peer(peer_id)

>>> beacon.get_peer('16Uiu2HAkw1yVqF3RtMCBHMbkLZbNhfGcTUdD6Uo4X3wfzPhGVnqv')
{
'data': {
'peer_id': '16Uiu2HAkw1yVqF3RtMCBHMbkLZbNhfGcTUdD6Uo4X3wfzPhGVnqv',
'address': '/ip4/3.127.23.51/tcp/9000',
'state': 'connected',
'direction': 'outbound'
}
}

Beacon.get_health()

>>> beacon.get_health()
200

Beacon.get_version()

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>>> beacon.get_version()
{
'data': {
'version': 'teku/v20.12.0+9-g9392008/osx-x86_64/adoptopenjdk-java-15'
}
}

Beacon.get_syncing()

>>> beacon.get_syncing()
{
'data': {
'head_slot': '222270',
'sync_distance': '190861'
}
}

2.23 Package Manager API

The web3.pm object exposes methods to interact with Packages as defined by ERC 1123.
• To learn more about the EthPM spec, visit the spec or the documentation.

Warning: The web3.pm API is still under development and likely to change quickly.
Now is a great time to get familiar with the API, and test out writing code that uses some of the great upcoming
features.
By default, access to this module has been turned off in the stable version of web3.py:
>>> from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider
>>> w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(...))
>>> w3.pm
...
AttributeError: The Package Management feature is disabled by default ...

In order to access these features, you can turn it on with. . .

>>> w3.enable_unstable_package_management_api()
>>> w3.pm
<web3.pm.PM at 0x....>

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2.23.1 Methods

The following methods are available on the web3.pm namespace.

class web3.pm.PM(w3: AsyncWeb3 | Web3)
The PM module will work with any subclass of ERC1319Registry, tailored to a particular implementation of
ERC1319, set as its registry attribute.
get_package_from_manifest(manifest: Manifest) → Package
Returns a Package # noqa: E501 instance built with the given manifest.
• Parameters:
– manifest: A dict representing a valid manifest
get_package_from_uri(manifest_uri: URI) → Package
Returns a Package # noqa: E501 instance built with the Manifest stored at the URI. If you want to use
a specific IPFS backend, set ETHPM_IPFS_BACKEND_CLASS to your desired backend. Defaults to Infura
IPFS backend.
• Parameters:
– uri: Must be a valid content-addressed URI
get_local_package(package_name: str, ethpm_dir: Path | None = None) → Package
Returns a Package # noqa: E501 instance built with the Manifest found at the package name in your local
ethpm_dir.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Must be the name of a package installed locally.
– ethpm_dir: Path pointing to the target ethpm directory (optional).
set_registry(address: Address | ChecksumAddress | ENS) → None
Sets the current registry used in web3.pm functions that read/write to an on-chain registry. This method
accepts checksummed/canonical addresses or ENS names. Addresses must point to an on-chain instance
of an ERC1319 registry implementation.
To use an ENS domain as the address, make sure a valid ENS instance set as web3.ens.
• Parameters:
– address: Address of on-chain Registry.
deploy_and_set_registry() → ChecksumAddress
Returns the address of a freshly deployed instance of SimpleRegistry and sets the newly deployed registry
as the active registry on web3.pm.registry.
To tie your registry to an ENS name, use web3’s ENS module, ie.

w3.ens.setup_address(ens_name, w3.pm.registry.address)

release_package(package_name: str, version: str, manifest_uri: URI) → bytes

Returns the release id generated by releasing a package on the current registry. Requires web3.PM to have
a registry set. Requires web3.eth.default_account to be the registry owner.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Must be a valid package name, matching the
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– version: Must be a valid package version, matching the given manifest.

– manifest_uri: Must be a valid content-addressed URI. Currently,
only IPFS and Github content-addressed URIs are supported.
get_all_package_names() → Iterable[str]
Returns a tuple containing all the package names available on the current registry.
get_package_count() → int
Returns the number of packages available on the current registry.
get_release_count(package_name: str) → int
Returns the number of releases of the given package name available on the current registry.
get_release_id(package_name: str, version: str) → bytes
Returns the 32 byte identifier of a release for the given package name and version, if they are available on
the current registry.
get_all_package_releases(package_name: str) → Iterable[Tuple[str, str]]
Returns a tuple of release data (version, manifest_ur) for every release of the given package name available
on the current registry.
get_release_id_data(release_id: bytes) → ReleaseData
Returns (package_name, version, manifest_uri) associated with the given release id, if it is avail-
able on the current registry.
• Parameters:
– release_id: 32 byte release identifier
get_release_data(package_name: str, version: str) → ReleaseData
Returns (package_name, version, manifest_uri) associated with the given package name and ver-
sion, if they are published to the currently set registry.
• Parameters:
– name: Must be a valid package name.
– version: Must be a valid package version.
get_package(package_name: str, version: str) → Package
Returns a Package instance, generated by the manifest_uri associated with the given package name and
version, if they are published to the currently set registry.
• Parameters:
– name: Must be a valid package name.
– version: Must be a valid package version.
class web3.pm.ERC1319Registry(address: Address, w3: Web3)
The ERC1319Registry class is a base class for all registry implementations to inherit from. It defines the methods
specified in ERC 1319. All of these methods are prefixed with an underscore, since they are not intended to be
accessed directly, but rather through the methods on web3.pm. They are unlikely to change, but must be imple-
mented in a ERC1319Registry subclass in order to be compatible with the PM module. Any custom methods
(eg. not defined in ERC1319) in a subclass should not be prefixed with an underscore.
All of these methods must be implemented in any subclass in order to work with web3.pm.PM. Any implemen-
tation specific logic should be handled in a subclass.

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abstract __init__(address: Address, w3: Web3) → None

Initializes the class with the on-chain address of the registry, and a web3 instance connected to the chain
where the registry can be found.
Must set the following properties. . .
• self.registry: A web3.contract instance of the target registry.
• self.address: The address of the target registry.
• self.w3: The web3 instance connected to the chain where the
registry can be found.
abstract _release(package_name: str, version: str, manifest_uri: str) → bytes
Returns the releaseId created by successfully adding a release to the registry.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Valid package name according the spec.
– version: Version identifier string, can conform to
any versioning scheme.
– manifest_uri: URI location of a manifest which details the
release contents
abstract _get_package_name(package_id: bytes) → str
Returns the package name associated with the given package id, if the package id exists on the connected
registry.
• Parameters:
– package_id: 32 byte package identifier.
abstract _get_all_package_ids() → Iterable[bytes]
Returns a tuple containing all of the package ids found on the connected registry.
abstract _get_release_id(package_name: str, version: str) → bytes
Returns the 32 bytes release id associated with the given package name and version, if the release exists on
the connected registry.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Valid package name according the spec.
– version: Version identifier string, can conform to
any versioning scheme.
abstract _get_all_release_ids(package_name: str) → Iterable[bytes]
Returns a tuple containing all of the release ids belonging to the given package name, if the package has
releases on the connected registry.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Valid package name according the spec.
abstract _get_release_data(release_id: bytes) → ReleaseData
Returns a tuple containing (package_name, version, manifest_uri) for the given release id, if the release
exists on the connected registry.
• Parameters:
– release_id: 32 byte release identifier.

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abstract _generate_release_id(package_name: str, version: str) → bytes

Returns the 32 byte release identifier that would be associated with the given package name and version
according to the registry’s hashing mechanism. The release does not have to exist on the connected registry.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Valid package name according the spec.
– version: Version identifier string, can conform to
any versioning scheme.
abstract _num_package_ids() → int
Returns the number of packages that exist on the connected registry.
abstract _num_release_ids(package_name: str) → int
Returns the number of releases found on the connected registry, that belong to the given package name.
• Parameters:
– package_name: Valid package name according the spec.

2.23.2 Creating your own Registry class

If you want to implement your own registry and use it with web3.pm, you must create a subclass that inher-
its from ERC1319Registry, and implements all the ERC 1319 standard methods prefixed with an underscore in
ERC1319Registry. Then, you have to manually set it as the registry attribute on web3.pm.

custom_registry = CustomRegistryClass(address, w3)

w3.pm.registry = custom_registry

One reason a user might want to create their own Registry class is if they build a custom Package Registry smart
contract that has features beyond those specified in ERC 1319. For example, the ability to delete a release or some
micropayment feature. Rather than accessing those functions directly on the contract instance, they can create a custom
ERC1319Registry subclass to easily call both the standard & custom methods.

2.24 Net API

The web3.net object exposes methods to interact with the RPC APIs under the net_ namespace.

2.24.1 Properties

The following properties are available on the web3.net namespace.

web3.net.listening()
..py:property::

• Delegates to net_listening RPC method

Returns true if client is actively listening for network connections.

>>> web3.net.listening
True

web3.net.peer_count()

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..py:property::

• Delegates to net_peerCount RPC method

Returns number of peers currently connected to the client.

>>> web3.net.peer_count
1

web3.net.version()
..py:property::

• Delegates to net_version RPC Method

Returns the current network id.

>>> web3.net.version
'8996'

2.25 Miner API

The web3.geth.miner object exposes methods to interact with the RPC APIs under the miner_ namespace that are
supported by the Geth client.

Warning: Deprecated: The Geth client deprecated the miner namespace because mining was switched off during
the proof-of-stake transition.

2.25.1 Methods

The following methods are available on the web3.geth.miner namespace.

GethMiner.make_dag(number)

• Delegates to miner_makeDag RPC Method

Generate the DAG for the given block number.

>>> web3.geth.miner.make_dag(10000)

GethMiner.set_extra(extra)

• Delegates to miner_setExtra RPC Method

Set the 32 byte value extra as the extra data that will be included when this node mines a block.

>>> web3.geth.miner.set_extra('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEF')

GethMiner.set_gas_price(gas_price)

• Delegates to miner_setGasPrice RPC Method

Sets the minimum accepted gas price that this node will accept when mining transactions. Any transactions with
a gas price below this value will be ignored.

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>>> web3.geth.miner.set_gas_price(19999999999)

GethMiner.start(num_threads)

• Delegates to miner_start RPC Method

Start the CPU mining process using the given number of threads.

>>> web3.geth.miner.start(2)

GethMiner.stop()

• Delegates to miner_stop RPC Method

Stop the CPU mining operation

>>> web3.geth.miner.stop()

GethMiner.start_auto_dag()

• Delegates to miner_startAutoDag RPC Method

Enable automatic DAG generation.

>>> web3.geth.miner.start_auto_dag()

GethMiner.stop_auto_dag()

• Delegates to miner_stopAutoDag RPC Method

Disable automatic DAG generation.

>>> web3.geth.miner.stop_auto_dag()

2.26 Geth API

The web3.geth object exposes modules that enable you to interact with the JSON-RPC endpoints supported by Geth
that are not defined in the standard set of Ethereum JSONRPC endpoints according to EIP 1474.

2.26.1 GethAdmin API

The following methods are available on the web3.geth.admin namespace.

The web3.geth.admin object exposes methods to interact with the RPC APIs under the admin_ namespace that are
supported by the Geth client.
web3.geth.admin.datadir()

• Delegates to admin_datadir RPC Method

Returns the system path of the node’s data directory.

>>> web3.geth.admin.datadir()
'/Users/snakecharmers/Library/Ethereum'

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web3.geth.admin.node_info()

• Delegates to admin_nodeInfo RPC Method

Returns information about the currently running node.

>>> web3.geth.admin.node_info()
{
'enode': 'enode://
˓→e54eebad24dce1f6d246bea455ffa756d97801582420b9ed681a2ea84bf376d0bd87ae8dd6dc06cdb862a2ca89ecabe1b

˓→',

'id':
˓→'e54eebad24dce1f6d246bea455ffa756d97801582420b9ed681a2ea84bf376d0bd87ae8dd6dc06cdb862a2ca89ecabe1

˓→',

'ip': '::',
'listenAddr': '[::]:30303',
'name': 'Geth/v1.4.11-stable-fed692f6/darwin/go1.7',
'ports': {'discovery': 30303, 'listener': 30303},
'protocols': {
'eth': {
'difficulty': 57631175724744612603,
'genesis':
˓→'0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3',

'head':
˓→'0xaaef6b9dd0d34088915f4c62b6c166379da2ad250a88f76955508f7cc81fb796',

'network': 1,
},
},
}

web3.geth.admin.peers()

• Delegates to admin_peers RPC Method

Returns the current peers the node is connected to.

>>> web3.geth.admin.peers()
[
{
'caps': ['eth/63'],
'id':
˓→'146e8e3e2460f1e18939a5da37c4a79f149c8b9837240d49c7d94c122f30064e07e4a42ae2c2992d0f8e7e6f68a30e7e

˓→',

'name': 'Geth/v1.4.10-stable/windows/go1.6.2',
'network': {
'localAddress': '10.0.3.115:64478',
'remoteAddress': '72.208.167.127:30303',
},
'protocols': {
'eth': {
'difficulty': 17179869184,
'head':
˓→'0xd4e56740f876aef8c010b86a40d5f56745a118d0906a34e69aec8c0db1cb8fa3',

'version': 63,
},
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}
},
{
'caps': ['eth/62', 'eth/63'],
'id':
˓→'76cb6cd3354be081923a90dfd4cda40aa78b307cc3cf4d5733dc32cc171d00f7c08356e9eb2ea47eab5aad7a15a3419b

˓→',

'name': 'Geth/v1.4.10-stable-5f55d95a/linux/go1.5.1',
'network': {
'localAddress': '10.0.3.115:64784',
'remoteAddress': '60.205.92.119:30303',
},
'protocols': {
'eth': {
'difficulty': 57631175724744612603,
'head':
˓→'0xaaef6b9dd0d34088915f4c62b6c166379da2ad250a88f76955508f7cc81fb796',

'version': 63,
},
},
},
...
]

web3.geth.admin.add_peer(node_url)

• Delegates to admin_addPeer RPC Method

Requests adding a new remote node to the list of tracked static nodes.

>>> web3.geth.admin.add_peer('enode://
˓→e54eebad24dce1f6d246bea455ffa756d97801582420b9ed681a2ea84bf376d0bd87ae8dd6dc06cdb862a2ca89ecabe1b

˓→71.255.237:30303')

True

web3.geth.admin.start_http(host='localhost', port=8545, cors='', apis='eth,net,web3')

• Delegates to admin_startHTTP RPC Method

Starts the HTTP based JSON RPC API webserver on the specified host and port, with the rpccorsdomain
set to the provided cors value and with the APIs specified by apis enabled. Returns boolean as to whether the
server was successfully started.

>>> web3.geth.admin.start_http()
True

web3.geth.admin.start_ws(host='localhost', port=8546, cors='', apis='eth,net,web3')

• Delegates to admin_startWS RPC Method

Starts the Websocket based JSON RPC API webserver on the specified host and port, with the rpccorsdomain
set to the provided cors value and with the APIs specified by apis enabled. Returns boolean as to whether the
server was successfully started.

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>>> web3.geth.admin.start_ws()
True

web3.geth.admin.stop_http()

• Delegates to admin_stopHTTP RPC Method

Stops the HTTP based JSON RPC server.

>>> web3.geth.admin.stop_http()
True

web3.geth.admin.stop_ws()

• Delegates to admin_stopWS RPC Method

Stops the Websocket based JSON RPC server.

>>> web3.geth.admin.stop_ws()
True

2.26.2 GethPersonal API

The following methods are available on the web3.geth.personal namespace.

web3.geth.personal.ec_recover(message, signature)

• Delegates to personal_ecRecover RPC Method

Returns the address associated with a signature created with personal.sign.

>>> web3.geth.personal.sign('snakesnax', '0x9ad3c920dce5cea9a31d69467bb8d7c954e5acff

˓→', '')

˓→ '0x8eb502165dec388af1c45c4bc835fd1852eaf358316ae5d248a40af8cd8dd7dc6373a6e606d8b411f788718b8b09a6
˓→ '
>>> web3.geth.personal.ec_recover('snakesnax',
˓→'0x8eb502165dec388af1c45c4bc835fd1852eaf358316ae5d248a40af8cd8dd7dc6373a6e606d8b411f788718b8b09a6

˓→')

'0x9ad3c920dce5cea9a31d69467bb8d7c954e5acff'

web3.geth.personal.import_raw_key(private_key, passphrase)

• Delegates to personal_importRawKey RPC Method

Adds the given private_key to the node’s keychain, encrypted with the given passphrase. Returns the address
of the imported account.

>>> web3.geth.personal.import_raw_key(some_private_key, 'the-passphrase')

'0xd3CdA913deB6f67967B99D67aCDFa1712C293601'

web3.geth.personal.list_accounts()

• Delegates to personal_listAccounts RPC Method

Returns the list of known accounts.

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>>> web3.geth.personal.list_accounts()
['0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD']

web3.geth.personal.list_wallets()

• Delegates to personal_listWallets RPC Method

Returns the list of wallets managed by Geth.

>>> web3.geth.personal.list_wallets()
[{
accounts: [{
address: "0x44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b",
url: "keystore:///path/to/keystore/UTC--2020-03-30T23-24-43.133883000Z--
˓→44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b"

}],
status: "Unlocked",
url: "keystore:///path/to/keystore/UTC--2020-03-30T23-24-43.133883000Z--
˓→44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b"

}]

web3.geth.personal.lock_account(account)

• Delegates to personal_lockAccount RPC Method

Locks the given account.

>>> web3.geth.personal.lock_account('0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD')
True

web3.geth.personal.new_account(passphrase)

• Delegates to personal_newAccount RPC Method

Generates a new account in the node’s keychain encrypted with the given passphrase. Returns the address of
the created account.

>>> web3.geth.personal.new_account('the-passphrase')
'0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD'

web3.geth.personal.send_transaction(transaction, passphrase)

• Delegates to personal_sendTransaction RPC Method

Sends the transaction.
web3.geth.personal.sign(message, account, passphrase)

• Delegates to personal_sign RPC Method

Generates an Ethereum-specific signature for keccak256("\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" +
len(message) + message))

>>> web3.geth.personal.sign('snakesnax', '0x9ad3c920dce5cea9a31d69467bb8d7c954e5acff

˓→', '')

˓→'0x8eb502165dec388af1c45c4bc835fd1852eaf358316ae5d248a40af8cd8dd7dc6373a6e606d8b411f788718b8b09a6
˓→'

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web3.geth.personal.unlock_account(account, passphrase, duration=None)

• Delegates to personal_unlockAccount RPC Method

Unlocks the given account for duration seconds. If duration is None, then the account will remain unlocked
for the current default duration set by Geth. If duration is set to 0, the account will remain unlocked indefinitely.
Returns a boolean signifying whether the account was unlocked successfully.

>>> web3.geth.personal.unlock_account('0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
˓→'wrong-passphrase')

False
>>> web3.geth.personal.unlock_account('0x582AC4D8929f58c217d4a52aDD361AE470a8a4cD',
˓→'the-passphrase')

True

2.26.3 GethTxPool API

The web3.geth.txpool object exposes methods to interact with the RPC APIs under the txpool_ namespace. These
methods are only exposed under the geth namespace since they are not standard.
The following methods are available on the web3.geth.txpool namespace.
TxPool.inspect()

• Delegates to txpool_inspect RPC Method

Returns a textual summary of all transactions currently pending for inclusion in the next block(s) as well as ones
that are scheduled for future execution.

>>> web3.geth.txpool.inspect()
{
'pending': {
'0x26588a9301b0428d95e6Fc3A5024fcE8BEc12D51': {
31813: ["0x3375Ee30428b2A71c428afa5E89e427905F95F7e: 0 wei + 500000 ×␣
˓→20000000000 gas"]

},
'0x2a65Aca4D5fC5B5C859090a6c34d164135398226': {
563662: ["0x958c1Fa64B34db746925c6F8a3Dd81128e40355E: 1051546810000000000␣
˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563663: ["0x77517B1491a0299A44d668473411676f94e97E34: 1051190740000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563664: ["0x3E2A7Fe169c8F8eee251BB00d9fb6d304cE07d3A: 1050828950000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563665: ["0xAF6c4695da477F8C663eA2D8B768Ad82Cb6A8522: 1050544770000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563666: ["0x139B148094C50F4d20b01cAf21B85eDb711574dB: 1048598530000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563667: ["0x48B3Bd66770b0D1EeceFCe090daFeE36257538aE: 1048367260000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563668: ["0x468569500925D53e06Dd0993014aD166fD7Dd381: 1048126690000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563669: ["0x3DcB4C90477a4b8Ff7190b79b524773CbE3bE661: 1047965690000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

563670: ["0x6DfeF5BC94b031407FFe71ae8076CA0FbF190963: 1047859050000000000␣

˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"]

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},
'0x9174E688d7dE157C5C0583Df424EAAB2676aC162': {
3: ["0xBB9bc244D798123fDe783fCc1C72d3Bb8C189413: 30000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 85000 × 21000000000 gas"]

},
'0xb18F9d01323e150096650ab989CfecD39D757Aec': {
777: ["0xcD79c72690750F079ae6AB6ccd7e7aEDC03c7720: 0 wei + 1000000 ×␣
˓→20000000000 gas"]

},
'0xB2916C870Cf66967B6510B76c07E9d13a5D23514': {
2: ["0x576f25199D60982A8f31A8DfF4da8aCB982e6ABa: 26000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 90000 × 20000000000 gas"]

},
'0xBc0CA4f217E052753614d6B019948824d0d8688B': {
0: ["0x2910543Af39abA0Cd09dBb2D50200b3E800A63D2: 1000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 50000 × 1171602790622 gas"]

},
'0xea674fdde714fd979de3edf0f56aa9716b898ec8': {
70148: ["0xe39c55ead9f997f7fa20ebe40fb4649943d7db66: 1000767667434026200␣
˓→wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"]

}
},
'queued': {
'0x0F6000De1578619320aBA5e392706b131FB1dE6f': {
6: ["0x8383534d0bcd0186d326C993031311c0Ac0D9B2d: 9000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 21000 × 20000000000 gas"]

},
'0x5b30608c678e1ac464A8994C3B33E5CdF3497112': {
6: ["0x9773547e27f8303C87089dc42D9288aa2B9d8F06: 50000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 90000 × 50000000000 gas"]

},
'0x976A3Fc5d6f7d259EBfb4cc2Ae75115475E9867C': {
3: ["0x346FB27dE7E7370008f5da379f74dd49F5f2F80F: 140000000000000000 wei +␣
˓→90000 × 20000000000 gas"]

},
'0x9B11bF0459b0c4b2f87f8CEBca4cfc26f294B63A': {
2: ["0x24a461f25eE6a318BDef7F33De634A67bb67Ac9D: 17000000000000000000 wei␣
˓→+ 90000 × 50000000000 gas"],

6: ["0x6368f3f8c2B42435D6C136757382E4A59436a681: 17990000000000000000 wei␣

˓→+ 90000 × 20000000000 gas", "0x8db7b4e0ecb095fbd01dffa62010801296a9ac78:␣

˓→16998950000000000000 wei + 90000 × 20000000000 gas"],

7: ["0x6368f3f8c2B42435D6C136757382E4A59436a681: 17900000000000000000 wei␣

˓→+ 90000 × 20000000000 gas"]

}
}
}

TxPool.status()

• Delegates to txpool_status RPC Method

Returns a textual summary of all transactions currently pending for inclusion in the next block(s) as well as ones
that are scheduled for future execution.

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{
pending: 10,
queued: 7,
}

TxPool.content()

• Delegates to txpool_content RPC Method

Returns the exact details of all transactions that are pending or queued.

>>> web3.geth.txpool.content()
{
'pending': {
'0x0216D5032f356960Cd3749C31Ab34eEFF21B3395': {
806: [{
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x0216D5032f356960Cd3749C31Ab34eEFF21B3395",
'gas': "0x5208",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0xaf953a2d01f55cfe080c0c94150a60105e8ac3d51153058a1f03dd239dd08586
˓→",

'input': "0x",
'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x326",
'to': "0x7f69a91A3CF4bE60020fB58B893b7cbb65376db8",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0x19a99f0cf456000"
}]
},
'0x24d407e5A0B506E1Cb2fae163100B5DE01F5193C': {
34: [{
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x24d407e5A0B506E1Cb2fae163100B5DE01F5193C",
'gas': "0x44c72",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0xb5b8b853af32226755a65ba0602f7ed0e8be2211516153b75e9ed640a7d359fe
˓→",

'input':
˓→"0xb61d27f600000000000000000000000024d407e5a0b506e1cb2fae163100b5de01f5193c0000000000000000000000

˓→",

'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x22",
'to': "0x7320785200f74861B69C49e4ab32399a71b34f1a",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0x0"
}]
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},
'queued': {
'0x976A3Fc5d6f7d259EBfb4cc2Ae75115475E9867C': {
3: [{
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x976A3Fc5d6f7d259EBfb4cc2Ae75115475E9867C",
'gas': "0x15f90",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0x57b30c59fc39a50e1cba90e3099286dfa5aaf60294a629240b5bbec6e2e66576
˓→",

'input': "0x",
'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x3",
'to': "0x346FB27dE7E7370008f5da379f74dd49F5f2F80F",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0x1f161421c8e0000"
}]
},
'0x9B11bF0459b0c4b2f87f8CEBca4cfc26f294B63A': {
2: [{
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x9B11bF0459b0c4b2f87f8CEBca4cfc26f294B63A",
'gas': "0x15f90",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0x3a3c0698552eec2455ed3190eac3996feccc806970a4a056106deaf6ceb1e5e3
˓→",

'input': "0x",
'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x2",
'to': "0x24a461f25eE6a318BDef7F33De634A67bb67Ac9D",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0xebec21ee1da40000"
}],
6: [{
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x9B11bF0459b0c4b2f87f8CEBca4cfc26f294B63A",
'gas': "0x15f90",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0xbbcd1e45eae3b859203a04be7d6e1d7b03b222ec1d66dfcc8011dd39794b147e
˓→",

'input': "0x",
'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x6",
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'to': "0x6368f3f8c2B42435D6C136757382E4A59436a681",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0xf9a951af55470000"
}, {
'blockHash':
˓→"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",

'blockNumber': None,
'from': "0x9B11bF0459b0c4b2f87f8CEBca4cfc26f294B63A",
'gas': "0x15f90",
'gasPrice': None,
'hash': "0x60803251d43f072904dc3a2d6a084701cd35b4985790baaf8a8f76696041b272
˓→",

'input': "0x",
'maxFeePerGas': '0x77359400',
'maxPriorityFeePerGas': '0x3b9aca00',
'nonce': "0x6",
'to': "0x8DB7b4e0ECB095FBD01Dffa62010801296a9ac78",
'transactionIndex': None,
'value': "0xebe866f5f0a06000"
}],
}
}
}

2.27 Tracing API

The web3.tracing object exposes modules that enable you to interact with the JSON-RPC trace_ endpoints sup-
ported by Erigon and Nethermind.
The following methods are available on the web3.tracing namespace:
web3.tracing.trace_replay_transaction()

web3.tracing.trace_replay_block_transactions()

web3.tracing.trace_filter()

web3.tracing.trace_block()

web3.tracing.trace_transaction()

web3.tracing.trace_call()

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2.28 Utils

The utils module houses public utility functions and classes.

2.28.1 ABI

utils.get_abi_input_names(abi)
Return the input names for an ABI function or event.
utils.get_abi_output_names(abi)
Return the output names an ABI function or event.

2.28.2 Address

utils.get_create_address(sender, nonce)
Return the checksummed contract address generated by using the CREATE opcode by a sender address with a
given nonce.
utils.get_create2_address(sender, salt, init_code)
Return the checksummed contract address generated by using the CREATE2 opcode by a sender address with a
given salt and contract bytecode. See EIP-1014.

2.28.3 Caching

class utils.SimpleCache
The main cache class being used internally by web3.py. In some cases, it may prove useful to set your own cache
size and pass in your own instance of this class where supported.

2.28.4 Exception Handling

utils.handle_offchain_lookup(offchain_lookup_payload, transaction)
Handle OffchainLookup reverts on contract function calls manually. For an example, see CCIP Read support
for offchain lookup within the examples section.
utils.async_handle_offchain_lookup(offchain_lookup_payload, transaction)
The async version of the handle_offchain_lookup() utility method described above.

2.29 Gas Price API

Warning: Gas price strategy is only supported for legacy transactions. The London fork introduced
maxFeePerGas and maxPriorityFeePerGas transaction parameters which should be used over gasPrice when-
ever possible.

For Ethereum (legacy) transactions, gas price is a delicate property. For this reason, Web3 includes an API for config-
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The Gas Price API allows you to define Web3’s behaviour for populating the gas price. This is done using a “Gas Price
Strategy” - a method which takes the Web3 object and a transaction dictionary and returns a gas price (denominated in
wei).

2.29.1 Retrieving gas price

To retrieve the gas price using the selected strategy simply call generate_gas_price()

>>> web3.eth.generate_gas_price()
20000000000

2.29.2 Creating a gas price strategy

A gas price strategy is implemented as a python method with the following signature:

def gas_price_strategy(web3, transaction_params=None):

...

The method must return a positive integer representing the gas price in wei.
To demonstrate, here is a rudimentary example of a gas price strategy that returns a higher gas price when the value of
the transaction is higher than 1 Ether.

from web3 import Web3

def value_based_gas_price_strategy(web3, transaction_params):

if transaction_params['value'] > Web3.to_wei(1, 'ether'):
return Web3.to_wei(20, 'gwei')
else:
return Web3.to_wei(5, 'gwei')

2.29.3 Selecting the gas price strategy

The gas price strategy can be set by calling set_gas_price_strategy().

from web3 import Web3

def value_based_gas_price_strategy(web3, transaction_params):

...

w3 = Web3(...)
w3.eth.set_gas_price_strategy(value_based_gas_price_strategy)

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2.29.4 Available gas price strategies

web3.gas_strategies.rpc.rpc_gas_price_strategy(web3, transaction_params=None)
Makes a call to the JSON-RPC eth_gasPrice method which returns the gas price configured by the connected
Ethereum node.
web3.gas_strategies.time_based.construct_time_based_gas_price_strategy(max_wait_seconds,
sample_size=120,
probability=98,
weighted=False)
Constructs a strategy which will compute a gas price such that the transaction will be mined within a number
of seconds defined by max_wait_seconds with a probability defined by probability. The gas price is com-
puted by sampling sample_size of the most recently mined blocks. If weighted=True, the block time will be
weighted towards more recently mined blocks.
• max_wait_seconds The desired maximum number of seconds the transaction should take to mine.
• sample_size The number of recent blocks to sample
• probability An integer representation of the desired probability that the transaction will be mined within
max_wait_seconds. 0 means 0% and 100 means 100%.
The following ready to use versions of this strategy are available.
• web3.gas_strategies.time_based.fast_gas_price_strategy: Transaction mined within 60 sec-
onds.
• web3.gas_strategies.time_based.medium_gas_price_strategy: Transaction mined within 5
minutes.
• web3.gas_strategies.time_based.slow_gas_price_strategy: Transaction mined within 1 hour.
• web3.gas_strategies.time_based.glacial_gas_price_strategy: Transaction mined within 24
hours.

Warning: Due to the overhead of sampling the recent blocks it is recommended that a caching solution be
used to reduce the amount of chain data that needs to be re-fetched for each request.

from web3 import Web3, middleware

from web3.gas_strategies.time_based import medium_gas_price_strategy

w3 = Web3()
w3.eth.set_gas_price_strategy(medium_gas_price_strategy)

w3.middleware_onion.add(middleware.time_based_cache_middleware)
w3.middleware_onion.add(middleware.latest_block_based_cache_middleware)
w3.middleware_onion.add(middleware.simple_cache_middleware)

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2.30 ENS API

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has a friendly overview.

Continue below for the detailed specs on each method and class in the ens module.

2.30.1 ens.ens module

class ens.ens.ENS(provider: BaseProvider = <object object>, addr: ChecksumAddress = None, middlewares:

~typing.Sequence[~typing.Tuple[Middleware, str]] | None = None)
Quick access to common Ethereum Name Service functions, like getting the address for a name.
Unless otherwise specified, all addresses are assumed to be a str in checksum format, like:
"0x314159265dD8dbb310642f98f50C066173C1259b"
classmethod from_web3(w3: Web3, addr: ChecksumAddress = None) → ENS
Generate an ENS instance from a Web3 instance
Parameters
• w3 (web3.Web3) – to infer connection, middleware, and codec information
• addr (hex-string) – the address of the ENS registry on-chain. If not provided, defaults
to the mainnet ENS registry address.
address(name: str, coin_type: int | None = None) → ChecksumAddress | None
Look up the Ethereum address that name currently points to.
Parameters
• name (str) – an ENS name to look up
• coin_type (int) – if provided, look up the address for this coin type
Raises
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• ResolverNotFound – if no resolver found for name
• UnsupportedFunction – if the resolver does not support the addr() function
setup_address(name: str, address: Address | ChecksumAddress | HexAddress = <object object>,
coin_type: int | None = None, transact: TxParams | None = None) → HexBytes | None
Set up the name to point to the supplied address. The sender of the transaction must own the name, or its
parent name.
Example: If the caller owns parentname.eth with no subdomains and calls this method with sub.
parentname.eth, then sub will be created as part of this call.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to set up
• address (str) – name will point to this address, in checksum format. If None, erase the
record. If not specified, name will point to the owner’s address.
• coin_type (int) – if provided, set up the address for this coin type
• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
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• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax

• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
name(address: ChecksumAddress) → str | None
Look up the name that the address points to, using a reverse lookup. Reverse lookup is opt-in for name
owners.
Parameters
address (hex-string) –
setup_name(name: str, address: ChecksumAddress | None = None, transact: TxParams | None = None) →
HexBytes
Set up the address for reverse lookup, aka “caller ID”. After successful setup, the method name() will
return name when supplied with address.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name that address will point to
• address (str) – address to set up, in checksum format
• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Raises
• AddressMismatch – if the name does not already point to the address
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
• UnownedName – if no one owns name
owner(name: str) → ChecksumAddress
Get the owner of a name. Note that this may be different from the deed holder in the ‘.eth’ registrar. Learn
more about the difference between deed and name ownership in the ENS Managing Ownership docs
Parameters
name (str) – ENS name to look up
Returns
owner address
Return type
str
setup_owner(name: str, new_owner: ChecksumAddress = <object object>, transact: TxParams | None =
None) → ChecksumAddress | None
Set the owner of the supplied name to new_owner.
For typical scenarios, you’ll never need to call this method directly, simply call setup_name() or
setup_address(). This method does not set up the name to point to an address.
If new_owner is not supplied, then this will assume you want the same owner as the parent domain.
If the caller owns parentname.eth with no subdomains and calls this method with sub.parentname.
eth, then sub will be created as part of this call.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to set up
• new_owner – account that will own name. If None, set owner to empty addr. If not speci-
fied, name will point to the parent domain owner’s address.

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• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()

Raises
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
Returns
the new owner’s address
resolver(name: str) → Contract | None
Get the resolver for an ENS name.
Parameters
name (str) – The ENS name
get_text(name: str, key: str) → str
Get the value of a text record by key from an ENS name.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to look up
• key (str) – ENS name’s text record key
Returns
ENS name’s text record value
Return type
str
Raises
• UnsupportedFunction – If the resolver does not support the “0x59d1d43c” interface id
• ResolverNotFound – If no resolver is found for the provided name
set_text(name: str, key: str, value: str, transact: TxParams = None) → HexBytes
Set the value of a text record of an ENS name.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name
• key (str) – Name of the attribute to set
• value (str) – Value to set the attribute to
• transact (dict) – The transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Returns
Transaction hash
Return type
HexBytes
Raises
• UnsupportedFunction – If the resolver does not support the “0x59d1d43c” interface id
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2.30.2 ens.async_ens module

class ens.async_ens.AsyncENS(provider: AsyncBaseProvider = <object object>, addr: ChecksumAddress =

None, middlewares: ~typing.Sequence[~typing.Tuple[AsyncMiddleware, str]] |
None = None)
Quick access to common Ethereum Name Service functions, like getting the address for a name.
Unless otherwise specified, all addresses are assumed to be a str in checksum format, like:
"0x314159265dD8dbb310642f98f50C066173C1259b"
classmethod from_web3(w3: AsyncWeb3, addr: ChecksumAddress = None) → AsyncENS
Generate an AsyncENS instance with web3
Parameters
• w3 (web3.Web3) – to infer connection information
• addr (hex-string) – the address of the ENS registry on-chain. If not provided, defaults
to the mainnet ENS registry address.
async address(name: str, coin_type: int | None = None) → ChecksumAddress | None
Look up the Ethereum address that name currently points to.
Parameters
• name (str) – an ENS name to look up
• coin_type (int) – if provided, look up the address for this coin type
Raises
InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
async setup_address(name: str, address: Address | ChecksumAddress | HexAddress = <object object>,
coin_type: int | None = None, transact: TxParams | None = None) → HexBytes |
None
Set up the name to point to the supplied address. The sender of the transaction must own the name, or its
parent name.
Example: If the caller owns parentname.eth with no subdomains and calls this method with sub.
parentname.eth, then sub will be created as part of this call.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to set up
• address (str) – name will point to this address, in checksum format. If None, erase the
record. If not specified, name will point to the owner’s address.
• coin_type (int) – if provided, set up the address for this coin type
• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Raises
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
async name(address: ChecksumAddress) → str | None
Look up the name that the address points to, using a reverse lookup. Reverse lookup is opt-in for name
owners.
Parameters
address (hex-string) –

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async setup_name(name: str, address: ChecksumAddress | None = None, transact: TxParams | None =
None) → HexBytes
Set up the address for reverse lookup, aka “caller ID”. After successful setup, the method name() will
return name when supplied with address.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name that address will point to
• address (str) – address to set up, in checksum format
• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Raises
• AddressMismatch – if the name does not already point to the address
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
• UnownedName – if no one owns name
async owner(name: str) → ChecksumAddress
Get the owner of a name. Note that this may be different from the deed holder in the ‘.eth’ registrar. Learn
more about the difference between deed and name ownership in the ENS Managing Ownership docs
Parameters
name (str) – ENS name to look up
Returns
owner address
Return type
str
async setup_owner(name: str, new_owner: ChecksumAddress = <object object>, transact: TxParams |
None = None) → ChecksumAddress | None
Set the owner of the supplied name to new_owner.
For typical scenarios, you’ll never need to call this method directly, simply call setup_name() or
setup_address(). This method does not set up the name to point to an address.
If new_owner is not supplied, then this will assume you want the same owner as the parent domain.
If the caller owns parentname.eth with no subdomains and calls this method with sub.parentname.
eth, then sub will be created as part of this call.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to set up
• new_owner – account that will own name. If None, set owner to empty addr. If not speci-
fied, name will point to the parent domain owner’s address.
• transact (dict) – the transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Raises
• InvalidName – if name has invalid syntax
• UnauthorizedError – if 'from' in transact does not own name
Returns
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async resolver(name: str) → AsyncContract | None

Get the resolver for an ENS name.
Parameters
name (str) – The ENS name
async get_text(name: str, key: str) → str
Get the value of a text record by key from an ENS name.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name to look up
• key (str) – ENS name’s text record key
Returns
ENS name’s text record value
Return type
str
Raises
• UnsupportedFunction – If the resolver does not support the “0x59d1d43c” interface id
• ResolverNotFound – If no resolver is found for the provided name
async set_text(name: str, key: str, value: str, transact: TxParams = None) → HexBytes
Set the value of a text record of an ENS name.
Parameters
• name (str) – ENS name
• key (str) – The name of the attribute to set
• value (str) – Value to set the attribute to
• transact (dict) – The transaction configuration, like in send_transaction()
Returns
Transaction hash
Return type
HexBytes
Raises
• UnsupportedFunction – If the resolver does not support the “0x59d1d43c” interface id
• ResolverNotFound – If no resolver is found for the provided name

2.30.3 ens.exceptions module

exception ens.exceptions.ENSException
Bases: Exception
Base class for all ENS Errors
exception ens.exceptions.AddressMismatch
Bases: ENSException
In order to set up reverse resolution correctly, the ENS name should first point to the address. This exception is
raised if the name does not currently point to the address.

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exception ens.exceptions.InvalidName
Bases: IDNAError, ENSException
This exception is raised if the provided name does not meet the normalization standards specified in ENSIP-15.
exception ens.exceptions.UnauthorizedError
Bases: ENSException
Raised if the sending account is not the owner of the name you are trying to modify. Make sure to set from in
the transact keyword argument to the owner of the name.
exception ens.exceptions.UnownedName
Bases: ENSException
Raised if you are trying to modify a name that no one owns.
If working on a subdomain, make sure the subdomain gets created first with setup_address().
exception ens.exceptions.ResolverNotFound
Bases: ENSException
Raised if no resolver was found for the name you are trying to resolve.
exception ens.exceptions.UnsupportedFunction
Bases: ENSException
Raised if a resolver does not support a particular method.
exception ens.exceptions.BidTooLow
Bases: ENSException
Raised if you bid less than the minimum amount
exception ens.exceptions.InvalidBidHash
Bases: ENSException
Raised if you supply incorrect data to generate the bid hash.
exception ens.exceptions.InvalidLabel
Bases: ENSException
Raised if you supply an invalid label
exception ens.exceptions.OversizeTransaction
Bases: ENSException
Raised if a transaction you are trying to create would cost so much gas that it could not fit in a block.
For example: when you try to start too many auctions at once.
exception ens.exceptions.UnderfundedBid
Bases: ENSException
Raised if you send less wei with your bid than you declared as your intent to bid.
exception ens.exceptions.ENSValidationError
Bases: ENSException, ValidationError
Raised if there is a validation error

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2.31 Constants

The web3.contants module contains commonly used values.

2.31.1 Strings

#The Address Zero, which is 20 bytes (40 nibbles) of zero.

web3.constants.ADDRESS_ZERO

#The hexadecimal version of Max uint256.

web3.constants.MAX_INT

#The Hash Zero, which is 32 bytes (64 nibbles) of zero.

web3.constants.HASH_ZERO

2.31.2 Int

#The amount of Wei in one Ether

web3.constants.WEI_PER_ETHER

2.32 Resources and Learning Material

web3.py and the Ethereum Python ecosystem have an active community of developers and educators. Here you’ll find
libraries, tutorials, examples, courses and other learning material.

Warning: Links on this page are community submissions and are not vetted by the team that maintains web3.py.
As always, DYOR (Do Your Own Research).

2.32.1 First Steps

Resources for those brand new to Ethereum:

• A Developer’s Guide to Ethereum, Pt. 1
• Ethereum Python Ecosystem Tour

2.32.2 Courses

• freeCodeCamp Solidity and Python Course (2022)

• Blockchain Python Programming Tutorial (2019)

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2.32.3 Tutorials

• Intro to Ape development framework

• Intro to websockets and web3.py
• Intro to asynchronous web3.py
• Intro to threaded web3.py
• Sign typed data messages (EIP 712)
• Look up offchain data via CCIP Read
• Configure and customize web3.py
• Decode a signed transaction
• Find a historical contract revert reason
• Generate a vanity address
• Similate transactions with call state overrides
• Configure web3 for JSON-RPC fallback and MEV blocker providers

2.32.4 Conference Presentations and Videos

• Web3.Py - Now And Near Future by Marc Garreau (2022, 15 mins)

• Python and DeFi by Curve Finance (2022, 15 mins)
• Working with MetaMask in Python by Rishab Kattimani (2022, 15 mins)

2.32.5 Smart Contract Programming Languages

• Vyper - Contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets EVM

2.32.6 Frameworks and Tooling

• Ape - The Ethereum development framework for Python Developers, Data Scientists, and Security Professionals
• Titanoboa - A Vyper interpreter and testing framework
• Wake - A Python-based development and testing framework for Solidity
• Brownie - [No longer actively maintained] A Python-based development and testing framework for smart con-
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2.32.7 Libraries

• Web3 Ethereum DeFi - Library for DeFi trading and protocols (Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Sushi, Aave, Chainlink)
• lighter-v1-python - Lighter.xyz DEX client for Python
• uniswap-python - Library lets you easily retrieve prices and make trades on all Uniswap versions.
• pyWalletConnect - WalletConnect implementation for wallets in Python
• dydx-v3-python - Python client for dYdX v3
• Lido Python SDK - Library with which you can get all Lido validator’s signatures and check their validity

2.32.8 Applications

• Curve Finance
• Yearn Finance
• StakeWise Oracle

2.32.9 Hackathon Helpers

• ape-hackathon-kit - Ape project template with a web front-end (Next.js, Tailwind, RainbowKit, wagmi)
• eth-flogger - Sample web app utilizing async web3.py, Flask, SQLite, Sourcify
• Temo - Sample terminal app utilizing async web3py, Textual, Anvil
• web3py-discord-bot - Sample Discord bot utilizing websockets, eth_subscribe, and discord.py
• py-signer - Demo of typed data message signing (EIP-712) with eth-account and Ape

2.33 Contributing

Thanks for your interest in contributing to web3.py! Read on to learn what would be helpful and how to go about it. If
you get stuck along the way, reach for help in the Python Discord server.

2.33.1 How to Help

Without code:
• Answer user questions within GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, or the Python Discord server.
• Write or record tutorial content.
• Improve our documentation (including typo fixes).
• Open an issue on GitHub to document a bug. Include as much detail as possible, e.g., how to reproduce the issue
and any exception messages.
With code:
• Fix a bug that has been reported in an issue.
• Add a feature that has been documented in an issue.
• Add a missing test case.

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Warning: Before you start: always ask if a change would be desirable or let us know that you plan to work on
something! We don’t want to waste your time on changes we can’t accept or duplicated effort.

2.33.2 Your Development Environment

Note: Use of a virtual environment is strongly advised for minimizing dependency issues. See this article for usage
patterns.

All pull requests are made from a fork of the repository; use the GitHub UI to create a fork. web3.py depends on
submodules, so when you clone your fork to your local machine, include the --recursive flag:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/<your-github-username>/web3.py.git

$ cd web3.py

Finally, install all development dependencies:

$ pip install -e ".[dev]"

Using Docker

Developing within Docker is not required, but if you prefer that workflow, use the sandbox container provided in the
docker-compose.yml file.
To start up the test environment, run:

$ docker compose up -d

This will build a Docker container set up with an environment to run the Python test code.

Note: This container does not have go-ethereum installed, so you cannot run the go-ethereum test suite.

To run the Python tests from your local machine:

$ docker compose exec sandbox bash -c 'pytest -n 4 -f -k "not goethereum"'

You can run arbitrary commands inside the Docker container by using the bash -c prefix.

$ docker compose exec sandbox bash -c ''

Or, if you would like to open a session to the container, run:

$ docker compose exec sandbox bash

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2.33.3 Code Style

We value code consistency. To ensure your contribution conforms to the style being used in this project, we encourage
you to read our style guide.
We use Black for linting. To ignore the commits that introduced Black in git history, you can configure your git
environment like so:

git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs

2.33.4 Type Hints

This code base makes use of type hints. Type hints make it easy to prevent certain types of bugs, enable richer tooling,
and enhance the documentation, making the code easier to follow.
All new code is required to include type hints, with the exception of tests.
All parameters, as well as the return type of functions, are expected to be typed, with the exception of self and cls
as seen in the following example.

def __init__(self, wrapped_db: DatabaseAPI) -> None:

self.wrapped_db = wrapped_db
self.reset()

2.33.5 Running The Tests

A great way to explore the code base is to run the tests.

First, install the test dependencies:

$ pip install -e ".[tester]"

You can run all tests with:

$ pytest

However, running the entire test suite takes a very long time and is generally impractical. Typically, you’ll just want to
run a subset instead, like:

$ pytest tests/core/eth-module/test_accounts.py

You can use tox to run all the tests for a given version of Python:

$ tox -e py37-core

Linting is also performed by the CI. You can save yourself some time by checking for linting errors locally:

$ make lint

It is important to understand that each pull request must pass the full test suite as part of the CI check. This test suite
will run in the CI anytime a pull request is opened or updated.

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2.33.6 Writing Tests

We strongly encourage contributors to write good tests for their code as part of the code review process. This helps
ensure that your code is doing what it should be doing.
We strongly encourage you to use our existing tests for both guidance and homogeneity / consistency across our tests.
We use pytest for our tests. For more specific pytest guidance, please refer to the pytest documentation.
Within the pytest scope, conftest.py files are used for common code shared between modules that exist within the
same directory as that particular conftest.py file.

Unit Testing and eth-tester Tests

Our unit tests are grouped together with tests against the eth-tester library, using the py-evm library as a backend,
via the EthereumTesterProvider.
These tests live under appropriately named child directories within the /tests directory. The core of these tests live
under /tests/core. Do your best to follow the existing structure when adding a test and make sure that its location
makes sense.

Integration Testing

Our integration test suite setup lives under the /tests/integration directory. The integration test suite is dependent
on what we call “fixtures” (not to be confused with pytest fixtures). These zip file fixtures, which also live in the /
tests/integration directory, are configured to run the specific client we are testing against along with a genesis
configuration that gives our tests some pre-determined useful objects (like unlocked, pre-loaded accounts) to be able
to interact with the client when we run our tests.
The parent /integration directory houses some common configuration shared across all client tests, whereas the
/go_ethereum directory houses common code to be shared across geth-specific provider tests. Though the setup
and run configurations exist across the different files within /tests/integration, our integration module tests are
written across different files within /web3/_utils/module_testing.
• common.py files within the client directories contain code that is shared across all provider tests (http, ipc, and
ws). This is mostly used to override tests that span across all providers.
• conftest.py files within each of these directories contain mostly code that can be used by all test files that exist
within the same directory or subdirectories of the conftest.py file. This is mostly used to house pytest fixtures
to be shared among our tests. Refer to the pytest documentation on fixtures for more information.
• test_{client}_{provider}.py files (e.g. test_goethereum_http.py) are where client-and-provider-
specific test configurations exist. This is mostly used to override tests specific to the provider type for the re-
spective client.

Working With Test Contracts

Contracts used for testing exist under web3/_utils/contract_sources. These contracts get compiled via the
compile_contracts.py script in the same directory. To use this script, simply pass the Solidity version to be used
to compile the contracts as an argument at the command line.
Arguments for the script are:
-v or –version Solidity version to be used to compile the contracts. If
blank, the script uses the latest available version from solcx.
-f or –filename If left blank, all .sol files will be compiled and the
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To run the script, you will need the py-solc-x library for compiling the files as well as black for code formatting.
You can install those independently or install the full [dev] package extra as shown below.

$ pip install "web3[dev]"

The following example compiles all the contracts and generates their respective contract data that is used across
our test files for the test suites. This data gets generated within the contract_data subdirectory within the
contract_sources folder.

$ cd ../web3.py/web3/_utils/contract_sources
$ python compile_contracts.py -v 0.8.17
Compiling OffchainLookup
...
...
reformatted ...

To compile and generate contract data for only one .sol file, specify using the filename with the -f (or --filename)
argument flag.

$ cd ../web3.py/web3/_utils/contract_sources
$ python compile_contracts.py -v 0.8.17 -f OffchainLookup.sol
Compiling OffchainLookup.sol
reformatted ...

If there is any contract data that is not generated via the script but is important to pass on to the integration tests,
the _custom_contract_data.py file within the contract_data subdirectory can be used to store that information
when appropriate.
Be sure to re-generate the integration test fixture after running the script to update the contract bytecodes for the inte-
gration test suite - see the Generating New Fixtures section below.

2.33.7 Manual Testing

To import and test an unreleased version of web3.py in another context, you can install it from your development
directory:

$ pip install -e ../path/to/web3py

2.33.8 Documentation

Good documentation will lead to quicker adoption and happier users. Please check out our guide on how to create
documentation for the Python Ethereum ecosystem.
Pull requests generate their own preview of the latest documentation at https://web3py--<pr-number>.org.
readthedocs.build/en/<pr-number>/.

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2.33.9 Pull Requests

It’s a good idea to make pull requests early on. A pull request represents the start of a discussion, and doesn’t necessarily
need to be the final, finished submission.
See GitHub’s documentation for working on pull requests.
Once you’ve made a pull request take a look at the Circle CI build status in the GitHub interface and make sure all tests
are passing. In general, pull requests that do not pass the CI build yet won’t get reviewed unless explicitly requested.
If the pull request introduces changes that should be reflected in the release notes, please add a newsfragment file as
explained here.
If possible, the change to the release notes file should be included in the commit that introduces the feature or bugfix.

2.33.10 Generating New Fixtures

Our integration tests make use of Geth private networks. When new versions of the client software are introduced, new
fixtures should be generated.
Before generating new fixtures, make sure you have the test dependencies installed:

$ pip install -e ".[tester]"

Note: A “fixture” is a pre-synced network. It’s the result of configuring and running a client, deploying the test
contracts, and saving the resulting state for testing web3.py functionality against.

Geth Fixtures

1. Install the desired Geth version on your machine locally. We recommend py-geth for this purpose, because it
enables you to easily manage multiple versions of Geth.
Note that py-geth will need updating to support each new Geth version as well. Adding newer Geth versions
to py-geth is straightforward; see past commits for a template.
If py-geth has the Geth version you need, install that version locally. For example:

$ python -m geth.install v1.13.9

2. Specify the Geth binary and run the fixture creation script (from within the web3.py directory):

$ GETH_BINARY=~/.py-geth/geth-v1.13.9/bin/geth python ./tests/integration/generate_

˓→fixtures/go_ethereum.py ./tests/integration/geth-1.13.9-fixture

3. The output of this script is your fixture, a zip file, which is now stored in /tests/integration/. Update the
/tests/integration/go_ethereum/conftest.py and /web3/tools/benchmark/node.py files to point
to this new fixture. Delete the old fixture.
4. Run the tests. To ensure that the tests run with the correct Geth version locally, you may again include the
GETH_BINARY environment variable.
5. Update the geth_version and pygeth_version parameter defaults in /.circleci/config.yml to match
the go-ethereum version used to generate the test fixture and the py-geth version that supports installing it.

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CI Testing With a Nightly Geth Build

Occasionally you’ll want to have CI run the test suite against an unreleased version of Geth, for example, to test up-
coming hard fork changes. The workflow described below is for testing only, i.e., open a PR, let CI run the tests, but
the changes should only be merged into main once the Geth release is published or you have some workaround that
doesn’t require test fixtures built from an unstable client.
1. Configure tests/integration/generate_fixtures/go_ethereum/common.py as needed.
2. Geth automagically compiles new builds for every commit that gets merged into the codebase. Download the
desired build from the develop builds.
3. Build your test fixture, passing in the binary you just downloaded via GETH_BINARY. Don’t forget to update the
/tests/integration/go_ethereum/conftest.py file to point to your new fixture.
4. Our CI runs on Ubuntu, so download the corresponding 64-bit Linux develop build, then add it to the root of
your web3.py directory. Rename the binary custom_geth.
5. In .circleci/config.yml, update jobs relying on geth_steps, to instead use custom_geth_steps.
6. Create a PR and let CI do its thing.

2.33.11 Releasing

Final Test Before Each Release

Before releasing a new version, build and test the package that will be released. There’s a script to build and install the
wheel locally, then generate a temporary virtualenv for smoke testing:

$ git checkout main && git pull

$ make package

# in another shell, navigate to the virtualenv mentioned in output of ^

# load the virtualenv with the packaged web3.py release

$ source package-smoke-test/bin/activate

# smoke test the release

$ pip install ipython
$ ipython
>>> from web3 import Web3, IPCProvider
>>> w3 = Web3(IPCProvider(provider_url))
>>> w3.is_connected()
>>> ...

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Verify The Latest Documentation

To preview the documentation that will get published:

$ make docs

Preview The Release Notes

$ towncrier build --draft

Compile The Release Notes

After confirming that the release package looks okay, compile the release notes:

$ make notes bump=$$VERSION_PART_TO_BUMP$$

You may need to fix up any broken release note fragments before committing. Keep running make build-docs until
it passes, then commit and carry on.

Push The Release to GitHub & PyPI

After committing the compiled release notes and pushing them to the main branch, release a new version:

$ make release bump=$$VERSION_PART_TO_BUMP$$

Which Version Part to Bump

The version format for this repo is {major}.{minor}.{patch} for stable, and {major}.{minor}.
{patch}-{stage}.{devnum} for unstable (stage can be alpha or beta).
During a release, specify which part to bump, like make release bump=minor or make release bump=devnum.
If you are in an alpha version, make release bump=stage will bump to beta. If you are in a beta version, make
release bump=stage will bump to a stable version.
To issue an unstable version when the current version is stable, specify the new version explicitly, like make release
bump="--new-version 4.0.0-alpha.1 devnum".

2.34 Code of Conduct

2.34.1 Our Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making
participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size,
disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality,
personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

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2.34.2 Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the community
• Showing empathy towards other community members
Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
• The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
• Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

2.34.3 Our Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appro-
priate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits,
issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any
contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

2.34.4 Scope

This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the
project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline
event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

2.34.5 Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the project team at
[email protected]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is
deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with
regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent
repercussions as determined by other members of the project’s leadership.

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2.34.6 Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4, available at https://www.
contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html

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THREE

INDICES AND TABLES

• genindex
• modindex
• search

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 PYTHON MODULE INDEX

e
ens, 271
ens.async_ens, 275
ens.ens, 272
ens.exceptions, 277

w
web3, 213
web3.contract, 110
web3.eth, 221
web3.gas_strategies.rpc, 271
web3.gas_strategies.time_based, 271
web3.geth, 259
web3.geth.admin, 259
web3.geth.miner, 258
web3.geth.personal, 262
web3.geth.txpool, 264
web3.net, 257
web3.tracing, 268
web3.utils, 269
web3.utils.filters, 105

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 INDEX

Symbols async_gas_price_strategy_middleware()
__init__() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 255 (web3.middleware method), 133
__repr__() (ethpm.Package method), 148 async_geth_poa_middleware() (web3.middleware
_generate_release_id() method), 139
(web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 256 async_handle_offchain_lookup() (web3.utils.utils
_get_all_package_ids() method), 269
(web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 256 async_http_retry_request_middleware()
_get_all_release_ids() (web3.middleware method), 133
(web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 256 async_local_filter_middleware()
_get_package_name() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry (web3.middleware method), 140
method), 256 async_make_stalecheck_middleware()
_get_release_data() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry (web3.middleware method), 137
method), 256 async_name_to_address_middleware()
_get_release_id() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry (web3.middleware method), 132
method), 256 async_validation_middleware() (web3.middleware
_num_package_ids() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 133
method), 257 AsyncENS (class in ens.async_ens), 275
_num_release_ids() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry attach_modules() (web3.w3 method), 220
method), 257 attrdict_middleware() (web3.middleware method),
_release() (web3.pm.ERC1319Registry method), 256 132

A B
BidTooLow, 278
abi (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112
block_number (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 223
accounts (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222
BlockFilter (class in web3.utils.filters), 106
add() (Web3.middleware_onion method), 135
buffered_gas_estimate_middleware()
add_peer() (in module web3.geth.admin), 261
(web3.middleware method), 133
address (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112
build_dependencies (ethpm.Package attribute), 148
address() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 275
build_dependency()
address() (ens.ens.ENS method), 272
built-in function, 164
AddressMismatch, 277
build_filter() (web3.contract.Contract.events.your_event_name
all_functions() (web3.contract.Contract class
class method), 114
method), 115
build_transaction()
api (web3.Web3 attribute), 213
(web3.contract.Contract.fallback method),
async_attrdict_middleware() (web3.middleware
122
method), 132
build_transaction()
async_buffered_gas_estimate_middleware()
(web3.contract.ContractFunction method),
(web3.middleware method), 133
121
async_construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware()
built-in function
(web3.middleware method), 140
build_dependency(), 164
async_construct_simple_cache_middleware()
deployment(), 162
(web3.middleware method), 137
deployment_type(), 163

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bytecode (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112 E

bytecode_runtime (web3.contract.Contract attribute), ec_recover() (in module web3.geth.personal), 262
112 encode_abi() (web3.contract.Contract class method),
114
C encodeABI() (web3.contract.Contract class method),
call() (web3.contract.Contract.fallback method), 122 114
call() (web3.contract.ContractFunction method), 120 ens
call() (web3.eth.Eth method), 236 module, 271
can_resolve_uri() (BaseURIBackend method), 151 ENS (class in ens.ens), 272
can_translate_uri() (BaseURIBackend method), 151 ens.async_ens
chain_id (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 223 module, 275
clear() (Web3.middleware_onion method), 136 ens.ens
client_version (web3.Web3 attribute), 213 module, 272
coinbase (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222 ens.exceptions
construct_latest_block_based_cache_middleware() module, 277
(web3.middleware method), 138 ENSException, 277
construct_sign_and_send_raw_middleware() ENSValidationError, 278
(web3.middleware method), 140 ERC1319Registry (class in web3.pm), 255
construct_simple_cache_middleware() estimate_gas() (web3.contract.Contract.fallback
(web3.middleware method), 137 method), 122
construct_time_based_cache_middleware() estimate_gas() (web3.contract.ContractFunction
(web3.middleware method), 138 method), 121
construct_time_based_gas_price_strategy() (in estimate_gas() (web3.eth.Eth method), 238
module web3.gas_strategies.time_based), 271 Eth (class in web3.eth), 221
constructor() (web3.contract.Contract class method), eth (web3.Web3 attribute), 218
113 EthereumTesterProvider (class in
content() (web3.geth.txpool.TxPool method), 266 web3.providers.eth_tester), 92
Contract (class in web3.contract), 112 events (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112
contract() (web3.eth.Eth method), 242
contract_types (ethpm.Package property), 148 F
ContractCaller (class in web3.contract), 127 fee_history() (web3.eth.Eth method), 238
ContractEvents (class in web3.contract), 123 fetch_uri_contents() (BaseURIBackend method),
ContractFunction (class in web3.contract), 119 151
create_access_list() (web3.eth.Eth method), 237 Filter (class in web3.utils.filters), 106
create_content_addressed_github_uri(), 152 filter() (web3.eth.Eth method), 239
create_filter() (web3.contract.Contract.events.your_event_name
filter_id (web3.utils.filters.Filter attribute), 106
class method), 113 find_functions_by_args() (web3.contract.Contract
class method), 115
D find_functions_by_name() (web3.contract.Contract
datadir() (in module web3.geth.admin), 259 class method), 115
decode_function_input() (web3.contract.Contract format_entry() (web3.utils.filters.Filter method), 106
class method), 127 from_web3() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS class method),
decode_tuples (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112 275
default_account (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 221 from_web3() (ens.ens.ENS class method), 272
default_block (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 221 from_wei() (web3.Web3 method), 216
deploy_and_set_registry() (web3.pm.PM method), functions (web3.contract.Contract attribute), 112
254
deployment() G
built-in function, 162 gas_price (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222
deployment_type() gas_price_strategy_middleware()
built-in function, 163 (web3.middleware method), 133
deployments (ethpm.Package attribute), 149 generate_gas_price() (web3.eth.Eth method), 239
get_abi_input_names() (web3.utils.utils method), 269

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get_abi_output_names() (web3.utils.utils method), get_peers() (Beacon method), 252

269 get_proof() (web3.eth.Eth method), 224
get_all_entries() (web3.utils.filters.Filter method), get_proposer_slashings() (Beacon method), 249
106 get_raw_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 229
get_all_package_names() (web3.pm.PM method), get_raw_transaction_by_block() (web3.eth.Eth
255 method), 230
get_all_package_releases() (web3.pm.PM get_release_count() (web3.pm.PM method), 255
method), 255 get_release_data() (web3.pm.PM method), 255
get_attestations() (Beacon method), 249 get_release_id() (web3.pm.PM method), 255
get_attester_slashings() (Beacon method), 249 get_release_id_data() (web3.pm.PM method), 255
get_balance() (web3.eth.Eth method), 223 get_spec() (Beacon method), 249
get_beacon_heads() (Beacon method), 251 get_storage_at() (web3.eth.Eth method), 224
get_beacon_state() (Beacon method), 250 get_syncing() (Beacon method), 253
get_block() (Beacon method), 247 get_text() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 277
get_block() (web3.eth.Eth method), 226 get_text() (ens.ens.ENS method), 274
get_block_attestations() (Beacon method), 248 get_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 228
get_block_header() (Beacon method), 246 get_transaction_by_block() (web3.eth.Eth
get_block_headers() (Beacon method), 246 method), 229
get_block_number() (web3.eth.Eth method), 223 get_transaction_count() (web3.eth.Eth method),
get_block_root() (Beacon method), 248 232
get_block_transaction_count() (web3.eth.Eth get_transaction_receipt() (web3.eth.Eth method),
method), 227 231
get_code() (web3.eth.Eth method), 226 get_uncle_by_block() (web3.eth.Eth method), 227
get_create2_address() (web3.utils.utils method), 269 get_uncle_count() (web3.eth.Eth method), 228
get_create_address() (web3.utils.utils method), 269 get_validator() (Beacon method), 245
get_deposit_contract() (Beacon method), 250 get_validator_balances() (Beacon method), 245
get_epoch_committees() (Beacon method), 246 get_validators() (Beacon method), 244
get_filter_changes() (web3.eth.Eth method), 240 get_version() (Beacon method), 252
get_filter_logs() (web3.eth.Eth method), 240 get_voluntary_exits() (Beacon method), 249
get_finality_checkpoint() (Beacon method), 244 geth (web3.Web3 attribute), 218
get_fork_data() (Beacon method), 244 geth_poa_middleware() (web3.middleware method),
get_fork_schedule() (Beacon method), 249 139
get_function_by_args() (web3.contract.Contract
class method), 115 H
get_function_by_name() (web3.contract.Contract handle_offchain_lookup() (web3.utils.utils method),
class method), 115 269
get_function_by_selector() hashrate (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222
(web3.contract.Contract class method), 115 http_retry_request_middleware()
get_function_by_signature() (web3.middleware method), 133
(web3.contract.Contract class method), 115 HTTPProvider (web3.Web3 attribute), 213
get_genesis() (Beacon method), 244
get_hash_root() (Beacon method), 244 I
get_health() (Beacon method), 252 import_raw_key() (in module web3.geth.personal), 262
get_local_package() (web3.pm.PM method), 254 inject() (Web3.middleware_onion method), 135
get_logs() (web3.eth.Eth method), 241 inspect() (web3.geth.txpool.TxPool method), 264
get_new_entries() (web3.utils.filters.Filter method), InvalidBidHash, 278
106 InvalidLabel, 278
get_node_identity() (Beacon method), 251 InvalidName, 277
get_package() (web3.pm.PM method), 255 IPCProvider (web3.Web3 attribute), 213
get_package_count() (web3.pm.PM method), 255 is_address() (web3.Web3 method), 216
get_package_from_manifest() (web3.pm.PM is_checksum_address() (web3.Web3 method), 216
method), 254 is_connected() (BaseProvider method), 143
get_package_from_uri() (web3.pm.PM method), 254 is_encodable() (web3.w3 method), 217
get_peer() (Beacon method), 252

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is_valid_entry() (web3.utils.filters.Filter method), web3.utils.filters, 105

106 myEvent() (web3.contract.ContractEvents method), 125

K N
keccak() (web3.Web3 class method), 216 name (ethpm.Package property), 148
name() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 275
L name() (ens.ens.ENS method), 273
link_bytecode() (LinkableContract class method), name_to_address_middleware() (web3.middleware
151 method), 132
linked_references (LinkableContract attribute), 151 needs_bytecode_linking (LinkableContract at-
list_accounts() (in module web3.geth.personal), 262 tribute), 151
list_wallets() (in module web3.geth.personal), 263 new_account() (in module web3.geth.personal), 263
listening() (in module web3.net), 257 node_info() (in module web3.geth.admin), 259
local_filter_middleware() (web3.middleware
method), 140 O
lock_account() (in module web3.geth.personal), 263 OversizeTransaction, 278
LogFilter (class in web3.utils.filters), 107 owner() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 276
owner() (ens.ens.ENS method), 273
M
make_dag() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner method), 258 P
make_request() (BaseProvider method), 143 Package (class in ethpm), 148
make_stalecheck_middleware() (web3.middleware params (web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation at-
method), 137 tribute), 146
manifest (Package attribute), 149 peer_count() (in module web3.net), 257
manifest_version (ethpm.Package property), 148 peers() (in module web3.geth.admin), 260
max_priority_fee (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222 pin_assets() (BaseIPFSBackend method), 152
method (web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation at- PM (class in web3.pm), 254
tribute), 146 pm (web3.Web3 attribute), 218
middleware_response_processors process_subscriptions()
(web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation (web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection
attribute), 146 method), 90
middlewares (BaseProvider attribute), 143
middlewares (Web3.middleware_onion attribute), 136 R
miner (web3.Web3 attribute), 218 recv() (web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection
mining (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 222 method), 91
modify_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 235 release_package() (web3.pm.PM method), 254
module remove() (Web3.middleware_onion method), 135
ens, 271 replace() (Web3.middleware_onion method), 136
ens.async_ens, 275 replace_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 234
ens.ens, 272 resolver() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 276
ens.exceptions, 277 resolver() (ens.ens.ENS method), 274
web3, 213 ResolverNotFound, 278
web3.contract, 110 response_formatters
web3.eth, 221 (web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation
web3.gas_strategies.rpc, 271 attribute), 146
web3.gas_strategies.time_based, 271 rpc_gas_price_strategy() (in module
web3.geth, 259 web3.gas_strategies.rpc), 271
web3.geth.admin, 259
web3.geth.miner, 258 S
web3.geth.personal, 262
web3.geth.txpool, 264 send() (web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection
web3.net, 257 method), 91
web3.tracing, 268 send_raw_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 234
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send_transaction() (in module web3.geth.personal), to_text() (web3.Web3 method), 214

263 to_wei() (web3.Web3 method), 216
send_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 232 trace_block() (in module web3.tracing), 268
set_contract_factory() (web3.eth.Eth method), 243 trace_call() (in module web3.tracing), 268
set_data_filters() (web3.utils.filters.LogFilter trace_filter() (in module web3.tracing), 268
method), 107 trace_raw_transaction() (in module web3.tracing),
set_extra() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner method), 258 268
set_gas_price() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner trace_replay_block_transactions() (in module
method), 258 web3.tracing), 268
set_gas_price_strategy() (web3.eth.Eth method), trace_replay_transaction() (in module
239 web3.tracing), 268
set_registry() (web3.pm.PM method), 254 trace_transaction() (in module web3.tracing), 268
set_text() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 277 transact() (web3.contract.Contract.fallback method),
set_text() (ens.ens.ENS method), 274 122
setup_address() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), transact() (web3.contract.ContractFunction method),
275 120
setup_address() (ens.ens.ENS method), 272 TransactionFilter (class in web3.utils.filters), 106
setup_name() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 276
setup_name() (ens.ens.ENS method), 273 U
setup_owner() (ens.async_ens.AsyncENS method), 276 UnauthorizedError, 278
setup_owner() (ens.ens.ENS method), 273 UnderfundedBid, 278
sign() (in module web3.geth.personal), 263 uninstall_filter() (web3.eth.Eth method), 241
sign() (web3.eth.Eth method), 235 unlinked_references (LinkableContract attribute),
sign_transaction() (web3.eth.Eth method), 233 151
sign_typed_data() (web3.eth.Eth method), 236 unlock_account() (in module web3.geth.personal), 263
solidity_keccak() (web3.Web3 class method), 217 UnownedName, 278
start() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner method), 259 UnsupportedFunction, 278
start_auto_dag() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner uri (ethpm.Package property), 148
method), 259 utils.SimpleCache (class in web3.utils), 269
start_http() (in module web3.geth.admin), 261
start_ws() (in module web3.geth.admin), 261 V
status() (web3.geth.txpool.TxPool method), 265 validation_middleware() (web3.middleware
stop() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner method), 259 method), 133
stop_auto_dag() (web3.geth.miner.GethMiner version (ethpm.Package property), 148
method), 259 version() (in module web3.net), 258
stop_http() (in module web3.geth.admin), 262
stop_ws() (in module web3.geth.admin), 262 W
strict_bytes_type_checking (ens attribute), 166 w3 (Package attribute), 149
strict_bytes_type_checking (web3.w3 attribute), wait_for_transaction_receipt() (web3.eth.Eth
217 method), 231
submit_hashrate() (web3.eth.Eth method), 241 web3
submit_work() (web3.eth.Eth method), 241 module, 213
subscription_id (web3._utils.caching.RequestInformationWeb3 (class in web3), 213
attribute), 146 web3._utils.caching.RequestInformation (built-
subscriptions (web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection in class), 145
attribute), 90 web3.contract
syncing (web3.eth.Eth attribute), 221 module, 110
web3.eth
T module, 221
to_bytes() (web3.Web3 method), 214 web3.gas_strategies.rpc
to_checksum_address() (web3.Web3 method), 216 module, 271
to_hex() (web3.Web3 method), 214 web3.gas_strategies.time_based
to_int() (web3.Web3 method), 215 module, 271
to_json() (web3.Web3 method), 215 web3.geth

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module, 259
web3.geth.admin
module, 259
web3.geth.miner
module, 258
web3.geth.personal
module, 262
web3.geth.txpool
module, 264
web3.main._PersistentConnectionWeb3 (built-in
class), 90
web3.net
module, 257
web3.providers.async_rpc.AsyncHTTPProvider
(built-in class), 91
web3.providers.ipc.IPCProvider (built-in class),
86
web3.providers.persistent.PersistentConnectionProvider
(built-in class), 87
web3.providers.rpc.HTTPProvider (built-in class),
86
web3.providers.websocket.request_processor.RequestProcessor
(built-in class), 145
web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketConnection
(built-in class), 90
web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketProvider
(built-in class), 87
web3.providers.websocket.WebsocketProviderV2
(built-in class), 88
web3.tracing
module, 268
web3.utils
module, 269
web3.utils.filters
module, 105
ws (web3.main._PersistentConnectionWeb3 attribute), 90

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