Guides

This section aims to provide hands-on guides to demonstrate how to use Py-EVM. If you are looking for detailed API descriptions check out the API section.

• Installation
  • Installing Python on Ubuntu
  • Installing Python on macOS
  • Installing py-evm
• Building an app that uses Py-EVM
  • Setting up the application
  • Add the Py-EVM library as a dependency
  • Writing the application code
  • Running the script
• Architecture
  • The Chain
  • The VM
  • The VMState
  • The Message
  • The Computation
  • The Opcode
• Understanding the mining process
  • Mining
  • Mining an empty block
  • Retrieving a valid nonce and mix hash
  • Mining a block with transactions
• Creating Opcodes
  • The as_opcode() helper
  • Opcodes as classes