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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9edd5a2121 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +AuthServiceProxy is an improved version of python-jsonrpc. + +It includes the following generic improvements: + +- HTTP connections persist for the life of the AuthServiceProxy object +- sends protocol 'version', per JSON-RPC 1.1 +- sends proper, incrementing 'id' +- uses standard Python json lib + +It also includes the following bitcoin-specific details: + +- sends Basic HTTP authentication headers +- parses all JSON numbers that look like floats as Decimal + +Installation: + +- change the first line of setup.py to point to the directory of your installation of python 2.* +- run setup.py + +Note: This will only install bitcoinrpc. If you also want to install jsonrpc to preserve +backwards compatibility, you have to replace 'bitcoinrpc' with 'jsonrpc' in setup.py and run it again. |