Removes dependency on unsafe and deprecated uint256S.
This makes parsing more strict, by returning an error
when the input contains non-hex characters, or when it
contains more than 64 hex digits.
Also make feature_assumevalid.py more robust by using CBlock.hash
which is guaranteed to be 64 characters long, as opposed to the
variable-length hex(CBlock.sha256)
In functional tests it is a quite common scenario to generate fresh
elliptic curve keypairs, which is currently a bit cumbersome as it
involves multiple steps, e.g.:
privkey = ECKey()
privkey.generate()
privkey_wif = bytes_to_wif(privkey.get_bytes())
pubkey = privkey.get_pubkey().get_bytes()
Simplify this by providing a new `generate_keypair` helper function that
returns the private key either as `ECKey` object or as WIF-string
(depending on the boolean `wif` parameter) and the public key as
byte-string; these formats are what we mostly need (currently we don't
use `ECPubKey` objects from generated keypairs anywhere).
With this, most of the affected code blocks following the pattern above
can be replaced by one-liners, e.g.:
privkey, pubkey = generate_keypair(wif=True)
Note that after this commit, the only direct uses of `ECKey` remain in
situations where we want to set the private key explicitly, e.g. in
MiniWallet (test/functional/test_framework/wallet.py) or the test for
the signet miner script (test/functional/tool_signet_miner.py).
Passing a list of transactions `txlist` to `create_block` appends
them to the block, hence we don't need to do that manually anymore.
The merkle root calculation can also be removed, since this is done
in the end of the helper.
The previous diff touched most files in ./test/, so bump the headers to
avoid having to touch them again for a bump later.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
./contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update ./test/
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
substitutes "for x in range(N):" by "for _ in range(N):"
indicates to the reader that a block is just repeated N times, and
that the loop counter is not used in the body
fa5587fe71 qa: wait_for_verack by default (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This removes the need to do so manually every time a connection is added.
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