steem-python is the official STEEM library for Python. It comes with a BIP38 encrypted wallet and a practical CLI utility called steempy.

You need to have Python 3.6 or newer to install steem-python. Unfortunately, old Ubuntu versions do not support that version as a default so you need to install it manually. First, we can start with normal installation.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip

Then check Python version

python3 -V

If the version is lower than 3.6 (e.g. Python 3.5.1), you can try to install Python 3.6 from the default repository.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6

If it fails, you can add a 3rd party repository and install.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6

The last step is replacing the default Python with the new one

rm /usr/bin/python
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python

You can install steem-python with pip:

pip3 install -U pytest
pip3 install -U steem

Documentation is available at http://steem.readthedocs.io

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