history() not working in python3 or python2 #110
Description
This is the same as if I used ipython as if I used ipython3
$ sudo pip3 install -U pybitcointools
$ ipython3
>>> from bitcoin import history
>>> history('1PZ3Ps9RvCmUW1s1rHE25FeR8vtKUrhEai')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/bitcoin/bci.py in history(*args)
168 try:
--> 169 jsonobj = json.loads(data)
170 except:
/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py in loads(s, encoding, cls, object_hook, parse_float, parse_int, parse_constant, object_pairs_hook, **kw)
311 raise TypeError('the JSON object must be str, not {!r}'.format(
--> 312 s.__class__.__name__))
313 if s.startswith(u'\ufeff'):
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-f52616f42edd> in <module>()
----> 1 history('1PZ3Ps9RvCmUW1s1rHE25FeR8vtKUrhEai')
/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/bitcoin/bci.py in history(*args)
169 jsonobj = json.loads(data)
170 except:
--> 171 raise Exception("Failed to decode data: "+data)
172 txs.extend(jsonobj["txs"])
173 if len(jsonobj["txs"]) < 50:
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
I'm actually trying to build a separate python package that does exactly what history() is doing (calling an external block explorer to get utxo) I want my library to return data that is compatible with how this library's history() function works. But it appears that history() is broken? I tried updating to the latest version but the error persists.