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wyldfire
Thanks for testing on pypy and for supporting Python 3! Sometimes it's just a small set of changes to support python 3 and testing on pypy is awesome, so thanks!

bit.PrivateKey.get_transactions -- would there be any way to filter these on transactions since a given block height?

ofek
Not yet, but limiting by # of confirmations is planned!
notthemessiah
Am I the only one annoyed by the name? "Bit" isn't very useful or specific, yet it takes up a pretty big parking space.
bbcbasic
A parking space in ofek's city though. Feel free to call your project bit too.
nerdponx
If you release software to the public, you run the risk of other people wanting you to use it.
pierrec
That's not really how Python packages work. Public packages need unique names, mostly because of PyPI, where package names are all on the same namespace. This can cause some interesting problems:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/

Even locally, all packages are supposed to have unique names (though virtualenvs can make things nicer).

nerdponx
Agreed. Why not call it "python-bitcoin"?

    pip install python-bitcoin
and

    import bitcoin
would be great. Otherwise the name "Bit" makes me think it's some kind of bit manipulation tools library.
bedros
bitc would be a better name

using a generic word as name would make it harder for search engine to rank your site