Getting started with the user-controlled wallets Python SDK

Use the Python SDK to interact with Circle’s User-Controlled Wallet APIs, which allow you to embed secure wallets in your applications and create blockchain transactions using the Developer Services platform. This page provides short examples of how to install and use the user-controlled wallets SDK. For complete examples, see the Sample Projects page. For more information see the user-controlled wallets documentation.

Pydantic v2 upgradeStarting from major version 9, the Python SDK uses Pydantic v2. This change brings performance improvements, enhanced features, and bug fixes.If you are already using the SDK, and choose to upgrade to major version 9, you may need to make some changes to your code.For more information, see Server-side SDK Pydantic v2 upgrade.

Prerequisites

To use the Python SDK, ensure you have:

Python installed.
A Circle Developer Console account
An API key created in the Console:
Keys → Create a key → API key → Standard Key
Your Entity Secret registered

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.

Install the SDK

Use the following command to install the SDK with pip:

pip install circle-user-controlled-wallets

User-controlled wallets client

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

Import the client

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

from circle.web3 import utils

client = utils.init_user_controlled_wallets_client(
api_key="<your_api_key>"
)

Create a transaction

The following example shows how to create a transaction using the client:

import uuid
from circle.web3 import user_controlled_wallets

# generate a user id
user_id = str(uuid.uuid4())

# create user
api_instance = user_controlled_wallets.UsersAndPinsApi(client)
try:
    request = user_controlled_wallets.CreateUserRequest(user_id=user_id)
    api_instance.create_user(request)
except user_controlled_wallets.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling UsersAndPinsApi->create_user: %s\n" % e)

# get user
try:
    response = api_instance.get_user(id=user_id)
    print(response.data)
except user_controlled_wallets.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling UsersAndPinsApi->get_user: %s\n" % e)

# get user token
try:
    request = user_controlled_wallets.GenerateUserTokenRequest.from_dict({"userId": user_id})
    response = api_instance.get_user_token(request)
    print(response.data.user_token)
except user_controlled_wallets.ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling UsersAndPinsApi->get_user_token: %s\n" % e)

Client configuration options

The client for the user-controlled wallets SDK accepts the following configuration parameters:

Option	Required?	Description
`api_key`	Yes	The API key used to authenticate requests to the Circle API.
`host`	No	The base URL that overrides the default API URL of `https://api.circle.com/v1/w3s`.
`user_agent`	No	Custom user agent request header. If provided, it’s added before the default user agent header.

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Getting started with the user-controlled wallets Python SDK

Prerequisites

Install the SDK

User-controlled wallets client

Import the client

Create a transaction

Client configuration options

​Prerequisites

​Install the SDK

​User-controlled wallets client

​Import the client

​Create a transaction

​Client configuration options

Prerequisites

Install the SDK

User-controlled wallets client

Import the client

Create a transaction

Client configuration options