#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2014-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. """ ZMQ example using python3's asyncio Bitcoin should be started with the command line arguments: bitcoind -testnet -daemon \ -zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332 \ -zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332 \ -zmqpubhashtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332 \ -zmqpubhashblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332 \ -zmqpubsequence=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332 We use the asyncio library here. `self.handle()` installs itself as a future at the end of the function. Since it never returns with the event loop having an empty stack of futures, this creates an infinite loop. An alternative is to wrap the contents of `handle` inside `while True`. A blocking example using python 2.7 can be obtained from the git history: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/37a7fe9e440b83e2364d5498931253937abe9294/contrib/zmq/zmq_sub.py """ import asyncio import zmq import zmq.asyncio import signal import struct import sys if (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor) < (3, 5): print("This example only works with Python 3.5 and greater") sys.exit(1) port = 28332 class ZMQHandler(): def __init__(self): self.loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() self.zmqContext = zmq.asyncio.Context() self.zmqSubSocket = self.zmqContext.socket(zmq.SUB) self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt(zmq.RCVHWM, 0) self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashblock") self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "hashtx") self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawblock") self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "rawtx") self.zmqSubSocket.setsockopt_string(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "sequence") self.zmqSubSocket.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:%i" % port) async def handle(self) : topic, body, seq = await self.zmqSubSocket.recv_multipart() sequence = "Unknown" if len(seq) == 4: sequence = str(struct.unpack('