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eth-mpt
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MPT is the data structure used in Ethereum as a cryptographically authenticated key-value data storage.
This library is a Python implementation of Modified Merkle Patrica Trie with a very simple interface.
storage = {}
trie = MerklePatriciaTrie(storage)
trie.update(b'do', b'verb')
trie.update(b'dog', b'puppy')
trie.update(b'doge', b'coin')
trie.update(b'horse', b'stallion')
old_root = trie.root()
old_root_hash = trie.root_hash()
print("Root hash is {}".format(old_root_hash.hex()))
trie.delete(b'doge')
print("New root hash is {}".format(trie.root_hash().hex()))
trie_from_old_hash = MerklePatriciaTrie(storage, root=old_root)
print(trie_from_old_hash.get(b'doge'))
try:
print(trie.get(b'doge'))
except KeyError:
print('Not accessible in a new trie.')
Install and update using pip:
pip install -U eth_mpt
Documentation can be found on readthedocs.
All the contributors are welcome. If you can make this library better, don't hesitate to :)
python -m unittest
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We found that eth-mpt demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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