Introduction

dogecoin-python attempts to create an even more friendly interface by wrapping the JSON-RPC API. The major advantages compared to a raw jsonrpc based approach are:

• Better exception handling. Exceptions are converted to subclasses of :class:~dogecoinrpc.exceptions.DogecoinException.

• Automatic dogecoin configuration loading. In case the dogecoin -server or dogecoind program runs on the same machine as the client script, and as the same user, the configuration file can automatically be parsed. This makes it unneccesary to explicitly specify a username and password. Of course, this is still possible.

• The functions :func:~dogecoinrpc.connection.DogecoinConnection.getinfo, :func:~dogecoinrpc.connection.DogecoinConnection.listreceivedbyaccount, :func:~dogecoinrpc.connection.DogecoinConnection.listreceivedbyaddress, :func:~dogecoinrpc.connection.DogecoinConnection.listtransactions and more return actual Python objects, instead of simply dictionaries. This makes for cleaner code, as the fields can simply be addressed with x.foo instead of x['foo'].