Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: aleph-client
Version: 0.3.1
Summary: Lightweight Python Client library for the Aleph.im network
Home-page: https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-client
Author: Aleph.im Team
Author-email: hello@aleph.im
License: mit
Project-URL: Documentation, https://aleph.im/
Platform: any
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst; charset=UTF-8
Provides-Extra: testing
Provides-Extra: mqtt
Provides-Extra: nuls2
Provides-Extra: ethereum
Provides-Extra: polkadot
Provides-Extra: cosmos
Provides-Extra: docs
License-File: LICENSE.txt
License-File: AUTHORS.rst

============
aleph-client
============

Python Client for the aleph.im network, next generation network of decentralized big data applications.
Developement follows the `Aleph Whitepaper <https://github.com/aleph-im/aleph-whitepaper>`_.

Documentation
=============

Documentation (albeit still vastly incomplete as it is a work in progress) can be found at http://aleph-client.readthedocs.io/ or built from this repo with:

    $ python setup.py docs


Requirements
============

Some cryptographic functionalities use curve secp256k1 and require installing
`libsecp256k1 <https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1>`_.

    $ apt-get install -y python3-pip libsecp256k1-dev


Installation
============

Using pip and `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/aleph-client/>`_:

    $ pip install aleph-client


Installation for development
============================

If you want NULS2 support you will need to install nuls2-python (currently only available on github):

    $ pip install git+https://github.com/aleph-im/nuls2-python.git


To install from source and still be able to modify the source code:

    $ pip install -e .
    or
    $ python setup.py develop


