Dev Update - Nozzle v0.1.2

Yesterday, blockbrother dev @bennierex updated Nozzle, our RPC-client for the Steem blockchain.
Nozzle was born out of requirements for other projects of @blockbrothers (Steemify, SteemTurbine, and VoteBot), to have a more stable and low-level RPC-client for the steemd nodes of the Steem network.
Nozzle is open-source, so feel free to use it for your own projects.
Get it from our Github repo: https://github.com/blockbrothers/nozzle
Bug Fixes
A total of three issues were fixed, two of them were still open until today;
- Issue #1 - Getting
nodes
property fromRPCClient
causes infinite loop. - Issue #2 - Unable to stream blocks.
- Issue #3 - Possible infinite loop in call-method of RPCClient.
Issue #1 was fixed by creating a copy of the nodes list by iterating the itertools.cycle
.
Issue #2 was fixed by changing the constant STEEMIT_BLOCK_INTERVAL
to STEEM_BLOCK_INTERVAL
, as it seems to have changed on the RPC-nodes.
Issue #3 was fixed by refactoring the while-loop in SteemdClient.stream_blocks()
method.
New Features
I've added a few high-level methods to nozzle.client.SteemdClient
to get accounts, get account reputation, get witness accounts by id, and get witness accounts by accountname:
from nozzle import Steem
s = Steem(nodes=['https://api.steemit.com'])
s.get_accounts(['blockbrothers', 'bennierex', 'eqko', 'exyle', 's3rg3'])
s.get_account_reputation('blockbrothers')
s.get_witnesses_by_account(['blockbrothers', 'aggroed'])
s.get_witnesses_by_id([14639, 14503])
Enhancement
SteemdClient.get_blocks()
and SteemdClient.stream_blocks()
now always yield a block, even if it is None. It's up to the consumer to decide what to do when that happens.
Installation / upgrade
The new version, v0.1.2, is available on pypi.
To install, simply run pip install steem-nozzle
.
To upgrade, run pip install --upgrade steem-nozzle
.
Planned future enhancements
- Add more high-level functions.
- Make nozzle compatible with Appbase.
- Performance improvements.
- Communities/Hivemind/SMT compatibility (when available)

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why aren't you using utopian for this update?
Because I did already: Nozzle v0.1.2 - Update and bugfixes
;)
This has to do with not being able to post as bb in relation to github or something right ?
According their rules, you have to make contributions under your own (linked) github account.
i want to bring witness to my d 0 w/(h) e (a)d https://steemit.com/g0fig/@xubrnt/ned-steemit