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I am trying to deploy a contract to a test network like Ropsten.

I am running through Infura using the HTTPProvider. I need to be able to sign the deployment of the contract locally, but can not figure out how to do this with the current API.

Any pointers?

carver
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I'll assume you already have a private key available, using something like extracting a private key from a geth keyfile, and that you are using Web3.py v4.2.0.

The general approach is to:

  • construct your contract with any initialization arguments
  • build the transaction for the contract constructor
  • sign the transaction with your private key
  • broadcast the signed transaction
  • wait for the transaction to be mined

One convenient way to build the transaction locally is to use the constructor() method on a contract object. For example:

deploy_txn = my_contract.constructor(*init_args).buildTransaction()

Then, sign the transaction locally:

signed = w3.eth.account.signTransaction(deploy_txn, private_key)

Finally, broadcast the transaction, and wait for it to be mined:

txn_hash = w3.eth.sendRawTransaction(signed.rawTransaction)  
txn_receipt = w3.eth.waitForTransactionReceipt(txn_hash)

To use the contract, you can rebuild the contract object with its new address. The address of your new contract is available at txn_receipt['contractAddress'].

carver
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You can take a look at (my) furiate script, which submits transactions to Infura using a local account.

It's slightly dated, and (currently) has a web3.py beta in requirements.txt, but should work with the latest v4 stable (v4.2.0, I think).

It uses the eth_account package separately, but should be possible in about the same way with web3.py, which incorporates eth_account's functionality.

In particular:

P.S. There's a backup repo on GitHub if you don't have a GitLab account, but would still like to "star" it for later. ;)

Noel Maersk
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