Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet [Update required]

[jackjack]

Great, thank you guys. I sent you the beta version. Please post in this thread any comment about it.
If other people want to test it just tell me.

I reserved the http://pywallet.tk domain name. It's the updated instructions, you may want to take a look at it.
As you may have noticed (I'm sure you did!), I'm not a native English speaker, so feel free to correct any spelling/grammar/vocabulary mistake may it be in pywallet, pywallet.tk or even in my posts

Edit: Sent to uuidman too

[uuidman]

Great news, I would like to test it as well.

[jackjack]

I'm releasing a beta version: http://pastebin.com/R1C8Qavv (put all the code in a new file you name pywallet.py)
Yes it's public, yes it works, but no it's not 100% sure yet so use only disposable or backed up wallets with it

I hope the beta testers didn't find some big issues I didn't see

[jackjack]

I just found an old dev version from just before my departure, which includes transaction creations, does it interest anyone?
ie should I include it in the next version or can it wait a bit?

[K1773R]

all features are welcome

[jackjack]

Ok it's coming soon then, but will be 'hidden'

[jackjack]

I fixed a bug that made the WUI only show uncompressed addresses of private keys. I don't use compressed keys so I didn't notice earlier.
I now suppose that pywallet is enough stable and removed the beta flag
You should upgrade because of the fixed bug and also because of the updater that will now work

I'll release the new big version this week-end I hope
Feel free to post suggestions for it or anything you have to say

[Kumala]

Short question, can the tool work on an offline wallet?  Does it modify the wallet in any way, I only want to dump all addresses/privkeys and acount names, not more.

[jackjack]

Short question, can the tool work on an offline wallet?  Does it modify the wallet in any way, I only want to dump all addresses/privkeys and acount names, not more.

Offline: yes!
Modifying: it does what you ask it. If you just ask to dump, it will only dump and won't modify anything
Depending on whether you want to import the file later, use 'dump wallet' or 'dump keys'. Instructions here: http://pywallet.tk
You can still ask in this thread if something is unclear

[Kumala]

I'll test it out cause I cant get the upgrade to 8.1 done without the new wallet telling me 30% less coins.  Hence my approach, dump key, import keys.

Thanks.

[Dabs]

Ok. Exactly how to get just the public key, and the private key. Nothing else.

What I've been doing is just dumping the whole thing, then output to text file, then remove everything else I don't like. I made bitcoin-qt create a new wallet with 500 keys, encrypt it, then pywallet the keys out of the new wallet.dat file.

Basically, I'm using pywallet and bitcoin-qt as my own version of offline bitaddress and vanitygen (no pattern) to generate compressed keys.

I tried using just "addr,privkey" or "sec" but maybe I'm typing the commands wrong or something. Using Windows, command line.

[jackjack]

With the command line you can't do that yet.
I know it's ridiculous that WUI and command line don't have the same utilities... That will change soon (in v2.1, note that v2.0 will be released on Monday)

If you absolutely have to use the command line, you can dump then use grep (I'm sure there's a port of grep on windows)
Or wait for v2.1

[Dabs]

Oh, okay. I'm willing to wait. I had this idea that command line stuff developed on Linux (or Python) would be "more powerful" than any gui or wui version. hehe.

Incidentally, can you "compile" a binary of this for Windows? I looked at some tools for this, but I may have to do a little more tinkering.

[jackjack]

Ah ah yeah it should be but I felt that there were more needs for the wui so I focused on it

Yes you can compile a python program, look at py2exe
I'm not sure about how it will deal with dependencies though...

[TheMartin]

I reserved the http://pywallet.tk domain name. It's the updated instructions

Great, thank you jackjack, your instructions-site is very helpful.

For Windows you offer the auto-installation-exe:
https://github.com/downloads/jackjack-jj/pywallet/PWI_0.0.3.exe

This exe contains the 'wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe' for automatic downloading of needed software and the batch-script 'install.bat' using the wget-programm.

In line 10, 18 and 19 of your 'install.bat' you download and install the Twisted-Package:
http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builds/twisted-packages/Twisted-11.0.0.winxp32-py2.7.exe

But version 'Twisted-11.0.0.winxp32-py2.7.exe' doesn't extist any longer, what results in a broken installation.

Checking the Twistedmatrix site I found there exists a version '...win32..' instead of '...winxp32...'

Thus I unpacked your PWI_0.0.3.exe with 7zip,
changed the three lines of 'install.bat' to '...Twisted-11.0.0.win32-py2.7.exe'
started 'install.bat' by hand
and everything worked wonderfull.

Maybe your Github-'install.bat' needs to be changed accordingly.

[jackjack]

Many thanks for reporting this!
It's edited and must be ok now

Also I think I made PWI use the github's install.bat so it should automatically work for future installs

[jackjack]

What is a brew formula?
Even Google doesn't say much about that

[jackjack]

Oh I see, Google was actually helpful then
Well, not many people uses pywallet on mac and I don't have one

It's a valid suggestion though, it's put on the list

[dserrano5]

I'm using "Delete a key from your wallet" in the web UI to delete a private key(*) and, although I get a message telling that the operation was successful and 1 key was deleted, it still appears in the output of --dumpwallet. I expected the key to be absent from the --dumpwallet output. Did I neglect any step?


(*) It's a throwaway one that I generated in bitaddress and imported just to test that bitcoind could import compressed private keys. I published it in the forum so I don't want to keep it in my wallet lest any funds end up there for any reason.

[jackjack]

Did you put the bitcoin address? (Not pub key nor priv key)
Are you sure you delete from, and dump the same wallet?