Resources and Learning Material

web3.py and the Ethereum Python ecosystem have an active community of developers and educators. Here you’ll find libraries, tutorials, examples, courses and other learning material.

Warning

Links on this page are community submissions and are not vetted by the team that maintains web3.py. As always, DYOR (Do Your Own Research).

First Steps

Resources for those brand new to Ethereum:

• A Developer’s Guide to Ethereum, Pt. 1

• Ethereum Python Ecosystem Tour

Courses

• freeCodeCamp Solidity and Python Course (2022)

• Blockchain Python Programming Tutorial (2019)

Tutorials

• Intro to Ape development framework

• Intro to websockets and web3.py

• Intro to asynchronous web3.py

• Intro to threaded web3.py

• Sign typed data messages (EIP 712)

• Look up offchain data via CCIP Read

• Configure and customize web3.py

• Decode a signed transaction

• Find a historical contract revert reason

• Generate a vanity address

• Similate transactions with call state overrides

• Configure web3 for JSON-RPC fallback and MEV blocker providers

Conference Presentations and Videos

• Web3.Py - Now And Near Future by Marc Garreau (2022, 15 mins)

• Python and DeFi by Curve Finance (2022, 15 mins)

• Working with MetaMask in Python by Rishab Kattimani (2022, 15 mins)

Smart Contract Programming Languages

• Vyper - Contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets EVM

Frameworks and Tooling

• Ape - The Ethereum development framework for Python Developers, Data Scientists, and Security Professionals

• Titanoboa - A Vyper interpreter and testing framework

• Wake - A Python-based development and testing framework for Solidity

• Brownie - [No longer actively maintained] A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting EVM

Libraries

• Web3 Ethereum DeFi - Library for DeFi trading and protocols (Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Sushi, Aave, Chainlink)

• lighter-v1-python - Lighter.xyz DEX client for Python

• uniswap-python - Library lets you easily retrieve prices and make trades on all Uniswap versions.

• pyWalletConnect - WalletConnect implementation for wallets in Python

• dydx-v3-python - Python client for dYdX v3

• Lido Python SDK - Library with which you can get all Lido validator’s signatures and check their validity

Applications

• Curve Finance

• Yearn Finance

• StakeWise Oracle

Hackathon Helpers

• ape-hackathon-kit - Ape project template with a web front-end (Next.js, Tailwind, RainbowKit, wagmi)

• eth-flogger - Sample web app utilizing async web3.py, Flask, SQLite, Sourcify

• Temo - Sample terminal app utilizing async web3py, Textual, Anvil

• web3py-discord-bot - Sample Discord bot utilizing websockets, eth_subscribe, and discord.py

• py-signer - Demo of typed data message signing (EIP-712) with eth-account and Ape