Method from_pubkey

bitcoin/wallet.py:198–216

Create a P2PKH bitcoin address from a pubkey Raises CBitcoinAddressError if pubkey is invalid, unless accept_invalid is True. The pubkey must be a bytes instance; CECKey instances are not accepted.

(cls, pubkey, accept_invalid=False)

    @classmethod
    def from_pubkey(cls, pubkey, accept_invalid=False):
        """Create a P2PKH bitcoin address from a pubkey

        Raises CBitcoinAddressError if pubkey is invalid, unless accept_invalid
        is True.

        The pubkey must be a bytes instance; CECKey instances are not accepted.
        """
        if not isinstance(pubkey, bytes):
            raise TypeError('pubkey must be bytes instance; got %r' % pubkey.__class__)

        if not accept_invalid:
            if not isinstance(pubkey, bitcoin.core.key.CPubKey):
                pubkey = bitcoin.core.key.CPubKey(pubkey)
            if not pubkey.is_fullyvalid:
                raise CBitcoinAddressError('invalid pubkey')

        pubkey_hash = bitcoin.core.Hash160(pubkey)
        return P2PKHBitcoinAddress.from_bytes(pubkey_hash)

    @classmethod
    def from_scriptPubKey(cls, scriptPubKey, accept_non_canonical_pushdata=True, accept_bare_checksig=True):