The official steem-python package is excellent however they're not reviewing/accepting/rejecting pull requests at github.
I am building a new platform operating at steem blockchain - it's huge and mostly relies on steem-python. I hit that bottleneck where you can't set beneficiaries with the officicial package. (see the ongoing discussion started at July 1, 2017.)
Because of those issues, today I have created a new fork with the fixes of mine and @crokkon.
Bug Fixes
Change of default node
Default node is jussi (api.steemit.com) now instead of the deprecated steemd.steemit.com. You don't need to pass steemd_instance to everything now.
Propagation of custom steemd instance to internal constructors
Account, Post, Blockchain, Converter, Block classes now obeys the custom node selection. (credits to @crokkon)
Fix custom node selection on steempy CLI.
The steempy cli ignored the setting from the --node command line option and always used the default node due to a parameter name mismatch/typo on the Steem()
constructor parameters. (credits to @crokkon)
Fix the version of TOML in dependencies.
Package should be installed in any environment without hassle now. There was a bug which causes installation fail because of the toml has a missing version.
Fix reputation calculation
Reputation calculation is aligned with the condenser.
from steem.account import Account
print(Account('emrebeyler').rep)
New Features
Beneficiaries
Removed all beneficiary helpers and syntactic sugar around it. It wasn't working anyway. It still supports extensions. So you can set beneficiaries like this:
from steem import Steem
s = Steem(keys=["active_wif"])
comment_options = {
"extensions": [[0, {
'beneficiaries': [
{'account': 'crokkon', 'weight': 1000},
{'account': 'emrebeyler', 'weight': 5000},
]}]]
}
s.commit.post(
title='my title',
body="my body",
author='post_author',
tags=['test'],
comment_options=comment_options,
)
Current voting Power
Account class has a new helper method to get current voting power. It also takes into account the regenerated
VP after the last vote cast.
from steem.account import Account
print(Account('emrebeyler').current_voting_power())
Implement DeleteComment operation.
delete_comment now has a high-level abstraction in operations.py.
from steem import Steem
s = Steem(keys=["posting_wif"])
s.delete_comment("@username/comment-identifier", account="comment_author")
Installation
$ pip install steem_dshot
All the internal api and imports same with the official package except the differences listed above.
Roadmap
There are still a couple of issues needs to be addressed. I will maintain this fork and sync with the upstream as long as possible.
How to contribute?
You can open pull requests/issues on the repository for the bug-fixes and feature requests. For any other stuff, contact me via Discord. (emre#9263)
Note: %20 of the liquid rewards of this post will be sent to @crokkon for his contribution to this fork.
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