Pywallet 2.2: manage your wallet [Update required]

[bb2ebb]

I want to connecting pywallet into wallet.dat, then appear the message

Code:

C:\Users\adi\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin>pywallet.py --wallet="wallet.dat"

'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages
A mandatory option is missing

why 

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[Muhammed Zakir]

I want to connecting pywallet into wallet.dat, then appear the message

Code:

C:\Users\adi\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin>pywallet.py --wallet="wallet.dat"

'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages
A mandatory option is missing

why 

"ecdsa" package is needed to sign/verify messages. If you don't sign/verify messages, it isn't needed. IMHO using localhost is better. Try doing it. I haven't played with Pywallet for sometime now. So I don't remember commands. You can get it by running pywallet.py --help.

[redsn0w]

I want to connecting pywallet into wallet.dat, then appear the message

Code:

C:\Users\adi\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin>pywallet.py --wallet="wallet.dat"

'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages
A mandatory option is missing

why 

"ecdsa" package is needed to sign/verify messages. If you don't sign/verify messages, it isn't needed. IMHO using localhost is better. Try doing it. I haven't played with Pywallet for sometime now. So I don't remember commands. You can get it by running pywallet.py --help.

It is missing the ecdsa.py 'package' : https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa  you should download it and put it in the python folder (C:\Python27\Lib).
You can find the package also here : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ecdsa/0.13

[btchris]

I want to connecting pywallet into wallet.dat, then appear the message

Code:

C:\Users\adi\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin>pywallet.py --wallet="wallet.dat"

'ecdsa' package is not installed, pywallet won't be able to sign/verify messages
A mandatory option is missing

why 

The first message about 'ecdsa' isn't the big problem, the second one about 'A mandatory option is missing' is a problem. pywallet is expecting another '--some-option' at the command line to tell it what to do.... so the question is what would you like pywallet to do?

(Also, like MZ said just above, --help gives you a list of all things it can do, one of which you need to add after --wallet="wallet.dat")

[lontivero]

I am sure this is an great bitcoin wallet but why do python developers call everything pyxxxx? I mean, a chess game is called pychess instead of CrazyBishop, SuperSquare, MikaTal or pow8_2? Once, when I was looking for a calculator I found pycalc. What if everybody do the samething? we would end with jcalc, ncalc, scalacalc, rubycalc, calc++ and so on.

Why do you think the language is important?

[marcotheminer]

Will this work on mac?

[Muhammed Zakir]

Will this work on mac?

Yes. It's written in Python.

P.S. From Github pywallet repo:

Dependencies for Mac OS X:
 1. Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/
 2. sudo port install python27 py27-twisted py27-pip py-bsddb python_select
 3. sudo port select --set python python27
 4. sudo easy_install ecdsa

[stayerc]

Hi, when I'm trying to run pywallet.py, I get following error

Code:

stayerc@C855-arch:~/.bitcoin$ ./pywallet.py --web
  File "./pywallet.py", line 852
    _p = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEFFFFFC2FL
                                                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please help

[matsmyth]

can anyone tell me what the "--otherversion=" parameter would be for gridcoin? or how to find it?

[LeChatNoir]

Does anyone know how to use this tool to recover Namecoin private keys from a corrupted encrypted wallet?

I've already tried to run the following command but everything it returns are Bitcoin public and private keys.
sudo python ./pywallet.py --recover --namecoin --recov_device /dev/sdb --recov_size 16Gio --recov_outputdir /home/username/Desktop/recovery

[jackjack]

I am sure this is an great bitcoin wallet but why do python developers call everything pyxxxx? I mean, a chess game is called pychess instead of CrazyBishop, SuperSquare, MikaTal or pow8_2? Once, when I was looking for a calculator I found pycalc. What if everybody do the samething? we would end with jcalc, ncalc, scalacalc, rubycalc, calc++ and so on.

Why do you think the language is important?

I know this is old but 1) I didn't choose the name (I continued the development after joric "disappeared") and 2) there is JCalc

Hi, when I'm trying to run pywallet.py, I get following error

Code:

stayerc@C855-arch:~/.bitcoin$ ./pywallet.py --web
  File "./pywallet.py", line 852
    _p = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEFFFFFC2FL
                                                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please help

Pywallet requires Python 2, not 3

Does anyone know how to use this tool to recover Namecoin private keys from a corrupted encrypted wallet?

I've already tried to run the following command but everything it returns are Bitcoin public and private keys.
sudo python ./pywallet.py --recover --namecoin --recov_device /dev/sdb --recov_size 16Gio --recov_outputdir /home/username/Desktop/recovery

If the wallet is recent I'm afraid you may not be able to recover it (wallet format has changed since I last updated Pywallet)

But if it did return public/private keys then you may be lucky
In this case this should be rather easy to translate them into Namecoin, but before, do you know how to import a private key into a Namecoin wallet?

[Dabs]

Hey jackjack, you're alive!

[jackjack]

Hey jackjack, you're alive!

Yes I am 
Still a few weeks left before I can come back for real!

BTW I'm looking at the code I produced and I'm kinda ashamed of this ugly code, it's obvious I used pywallet to learn Python 
That makes me wonder, is it still useful to have something like an updated pywallet? Because I see that the bitcoin clients have included many features and I don't know (I couldn't follow Bitcoin news for months) exactly which ones

[Dabs]

Yes I am 
Still a few weeks left before I can come back for real!

BTW I'm looking at the code I produced and I'm kinda ashamed of this ugly code, it's obvious I used pywallet to learn Python 
That makes me wonder, is it still useful to have something like an updated pywallet? Because I see that the bitcoin clients have included many features and I don't know (I couldn't follow Bitcoin news for months) exactly which ones

It's good to have an updated pywallet. I would like pywallet to extract private keys in bulk from altcoins that don't have the "dumpwallet" command. To generate a bunch of addresses. Multi-sigs. ... Or if you really hate your ugly code to do it over from scratch (using the old code as a "guide".)

[jackjack]

Yes I am 
Still a few weeks left before I can come back for real!

BTW I'm looking at the code I produced and I'm kinda ashamed of this ugly code, it's obvious I used pywallet to learn Python 
That makes me wonder, is it still useful to have something like an updated pywallet? Because I see that the bitcoin clients have included many features and I don't know (I couldn't follow Bitcoin news for months) exactly which ones

It's good to have an updated pywallet. I would like pywallet to extract private keys in bulk from altcoins that don't have the "dumpwallet" command. To generate a bunch of addresses. Multi-sigs. ... Or if you really hate your ugly code to do it over from scratch (using the old code as a "guide".)

I have a rewritten pywallet lying around, I'll have to find it and update it with the features it misses

[racezefi]

Yes I am 
Still a few weeks left before I can come back for real!

BTW I'm looking at the code I produced and I'm kinda ashamed of this ugly code, it's obvious I used pywallet to learn Python 
That makes me wonder, is it still useful to have something like an updated pywallet? Because I see that the bitcoin clients have included many features and I don't know (I couldn't follow Bitcoin news for months) exactly which ones

It's good to have an updated pywallet. I would like pywallet to extract private keys in bulk from altcoins that don't have the "dumpwallet" command. To generate a bunch of addresses. Multi-sigs. ... Or if you really hate your ugly code to do it over from scratch (using the old code as a "guide".)

I have a rewritten pywallet lying around, I'll have to find it and update it with the features it misses

Hey man, if you could do it, I'd greatly appreciate it, you'd make my life much easier!

[BitcoinNewsBR]

Someone who knows how to use Pywallet could help solve my issue? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1728263.msg17294891#msg17294891

Reward: 2 BTC

[qvqgg]

Pywallet responds with 'Error with Dump Page'. What should I do ?

[jackjack]

Pywallet responds with 'Error with Dump Page'. What should I do ?

If it's a recent wallet it's because pywallet can't read them
It will handle them in the next version, no ETA though (a few weeks maybe)

[sachalamp]

Hello, I'm getting this error when I try to install. I did manage to install it 2 years ago on win 8, but now I am running windows 10.

http://imgur.com/8VIP52R

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong?