PyWaves – Community Edition

PyWaves-CE is a community-maintained fork of the original PyWaves library for the Waves blockchain. It is a drop-in replacement that keeps the import path pywaves intact, so existing code keeps working without edits.

pip install pywaves-ce

Basic Example

import pywaves as pw

# Create addresses from seeds
firstAddress = pw.Address(seed = 'this is just a simple test seed 1')
secondAddress = pw.Address(seed = 'this is just a simple test seed 2')

# Send Waves from one address to another
tx = firstAddress.sendWaves(secondAddress, 100000)
assert 'id' in tx

# Wait for transaction to complete and verify status
tx = pw.waitFor(tx['id'])
assert tx['applicationStatus'] == 'succeeded'

Purpose & Rationale of Community Edition

• Unmaintained upstream – the original PyWaves no longer receives updates.
• Drop-in replacement – legacy code keeps using import pywaves as pw unchanged.
• Active maintenance – security fixes and new Waves features are delivered regularly.
• Repository layout – PyWaves-CE hosts the pristine 1.0.5 upstream snapshot.
• PyPI distribution – published as pywaves-ce while the internal package name remains pywaves.
• Versioning roadmap
  • 1.x – strict legacy API compatibility with upstream 1.0.5.
  • 2.x – modernization and intentional breaking changes.

Documentation

• Wiki: https://github.com/PyWaves-CE/PyWaves-CE/wiki

License

Code released under the MIT License.

Development and Packaging

PyWaves uses Poetry for dependency management and packaging.

Installation for Development

1. Install Poetry (if not already installed)

pip install poetry

2. Install dependencies

poetry install

3. Activate the virtual environment

poetry shell

Building the Package

poetry build

This will create both wheel and source distributions in the dist/ directory.

Testing Across Python Versions

PyWaves includes a workflow testing system that can test across multiple Python versions:

python workflow_venvs.py
python workflow_tests.py

This will test the library with all Python versions specified in PYTHON_VERSIONS.py.