This Python 3 library provides a wrapper around Peter Todd's python-bitcoinlib, extending it in order to add altcoin support (initially Dogecoin). Please consult python-bitcoinlib's documentation for an API overview.
This is intended to work with Python 3. You will hit issues if you try to use Python 2.
As a hint, if you are on Ubuntu, you may want to install the python-is-python3 package
to ensure Python 3 is the default.
You will need to install python-bitcoinlib first, from https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib To do this you should clone the repository to a new folder, then run its setup.py. For example:
git clone https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib.git
cd python-bitcoinlib
sudo ./setup.py install
To install the library, run setup.py, as in sudo ./setup.py install.
Under altcoin/tests are unit tests based on data extracted from Dogecoin blockchains. To run the tests:
python -m unittest discover python3 -m unittest discover