bitcoin.address.p2pkh module

Models P2PKH Addresses.

A P2PKH address is used by user to send bitcoins to another user who controls the private key behind the public key (whose hash appears in the address)

Most information was extracted from the Bitcoin Wiki.

exception bitcoin.address.p2pkh.AddressPKHLengthError

Bases: ValueError

Error raised when the public key hash has an incorrect length

class bitcoin.address.p2pkh.P2PKHAddress(public_key_hash: bytes)

Bases: object

Models a legacy P2PKH Address

__init__(public_key_hash: bytes) → None

Initializes a P2PKH given its public key hash.

Modifies the attribute _script_hash

Parameters:

public_key_hash – public key hash to set

Raises:

• AssertionError – public_key_hash argument is not a bytes object
• AddressPKHLengthError – public_key_hash argument has not the proper length of a public key hash

do_things(obj: str) → bytes

Does some things.

Parameters:obj – object of options Returns:things modified by obj as bytes

public_key_hash

Returns the public key hash stored in the address.

Getter:Returns the public key hash as bytes object Setter:Sets the public key hash, while verifying the length and type

bitcoin.address.p2pkh.PKH_LENGTH = 20

int – length of the public key hashes stored in addresses

bitcoin.address.p2pkh.from_hex(public_key_hash_hex: str) → bitcoin.address.p2pkh.P2PKHAddress

Creates a P2PKH address from public key hash in hexadecimal.

Converts the hexadecimal string into bytes and then uses those bytes to create a P2PKH address.

>>> 1+1
2

Parameters:public_key_hash_hex – string containing public key hash in hexadecimal Returns:pay to public key hash address