Method parse

code-ch08/tx.py:329–338

Takes a byte stream and parses the tx_output at the start return a TxOut object

(cls, s)

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, s):
        '''Takes a byte stream and parses the tx_output at the start
        return a TxOut object
        '''
        # amount is an integer in 8 bytes, little endian
        amount = little_endian_to_int(s.read(8))
        # use Script.parse to get the ScriptPubKey
        script_pubkey = Script.parse(s)
        # return an instance of the class (see __init__ for args)
        return cls(amount, script_pubkey)

    def serialize(self):
        '''Returns the byte serialization of the transaction output'''