An alternative steem-python with the bug fixes!

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

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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

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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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