Getting Started with Smart Contract Platform - Python

Use the Python SDK to interact with Smart Contract Platform APIs, which allow you interact with smart contracts on the blockchain using the Developer Services platform.

This page provides short examples of how to install and use the Smart Contract Platform SDK. For complete examples, see the Sample Projects page. For more information see the Smart Contract Platform documentation.

• Have Python installed.
• Have an active Circle Developer Account.
• Generate an API key to use in requests to the Circle API.
• Generate an entity secret to use in requests with the Smart Contract Platform SDK.

Although not a requirement for using the SDK, Circle recommends that you use a virtual environment for development. A Python virtual environment is an isolated environment that you can use to silo your project from the global Python environment.

Use the following command to install the SDK with pip:

pip install circle-smart-contract-platform

To start using the SDK, you first need to configure a client and initialize it with your API key and entity secret.

The following example shows how to import the client and configure it to use your API key and entity secret:

from circle.web3 import utils

client = utils.init_smart_contract_platform_client(
  api_key="Your API KEY",
  entity_secret="Your entity secret"
)

The following example shows how to import a smart contract using the client:

from circle.web3 import smart_contract_platform

api_instance = smart_contract_platform.DeployImportApi(client)

# import contract
try:
    request = smart_contract_platform.ImportContractRequest.from_dict({
        "name": "UChildERC20Proxy",
        "address": "0x2791Bca1f2de4661ED88A30C99A7a9449Aa84174",
        "blockchain": "MATIC"
    })
    response = api_instance.import_contract(request)
    print(response)
except smart_contract_platform.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling DeployImportApi->import_contract: %s\n" % e)

The client for the Smart Contract Platform SDK accepts the following configuration parameters: