Let me preface this by saying:

## beem is the shit, no doubt
Thanks @holger80; it is the best Python library for HIVE (and STEEM).

That being said, this is what I get when I try getting an account's info:

code:

```
from beem.account import Account

account_name = 'holger80'

account = Account(account_name)

for property in account:
    print(property, account[property])
```

result:

```
id 538086
name holger80
owner {'weight_threshold': 1, 'account_auths': [], 'key_auths': [['STM5XDYn3NeTqiMd1wczZjF9sPiJqY2uQw9HRwT6LR6rQytAxWNfz', 1]]}
active {'weight_threshold': 1, 'account_auths': [], 'key_auths': [['STM7tA7Mh81wJV1J8eW8NyGLc3XCSyXNdFnhAh8F8bYYd8yAcy6Ew', 1]]}
posting {'weight_threshold': 1, 'account_auths': [['dapplr', 1], ['downvote-tool', 1], ['dpoll.xyz', 1], ['ecency.app', 1], ['engrave.app', 1], ['esteemapp', 1], ['nerday.app', 1], ['peakd.app', 1], ['piggy-bubba', 1], ['rewarding', 1]], 'key_auths': [['STM6t5ExkHZtQL1pdkrRZjCgzbAdnB3YUYCZgrYWDXvdnU5bp57jL', 1]]}
memo_key STM6MQBLaX9Q15CK3prXoWK4C6EqtsL7C4rqq1h6BQjxvfk9tuT3N
json_metadata {"profile":{"name":"Holger","about":"beem Developer, Steem Witness, beempy.com, steemrewarding.com","website":"https://github.com/holgern/beem","location":"Germany","cover_image":"https://farm1.staticflickr.com/894/26382750057_69f5c8e568.jpg","profile_image":"https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4715/38733717165_7070227c89_n.jpg","witness_description":"Developer of several python libs: beem/beempy, steemengine and maker of steemrewarding.com, beempy.com and fullnodeupdate. Developer of Scot and part of the Nextcolony team. ","dtube_pub":"2AXePjH4fW35mjcrFMxC8rf4nkG4Yao2nUHq6XETxb7gP"}}
posting_json_metadata {"profile":{"name":"Holger","about":"beem Developer, Hive Witness, beempy.com, rewarding.app","website":"https://github.com/holgern/beem","location":"Germany","cover_image":"https://farm1.staticflickr.com/894/26382750057_69f5c8e568.jpg","profile_image":"https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4715/38733717165_7070227c89_n.jpg","witness_description":"Developer of several python libs: beem/beempy, hiveengine and maker of rewarding.app and fullnodeupdate. ","dtube_pub":"2AXePjH4fW35mjcrFMxC8rf4nkG4Yao2nUHq6XETxb7gP","version":2}}
proxy
last_owner_update 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
last_account_update 2020-12-28 22:09:06+00:00
created 2017-12-29 10:07:45+00:00
mined False
recovery_account recovery.account
last_account_recovery 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
reset_account null
comment_count 0
lifetime_vote_count 0
post_count 1525
can_vote True
voting_manabar {'current_mana': '147684609966928', 'last_update_time': 1628148321}
downvote_manabar {'current_mana': '36921152491731', 'last_update_time': 1628148321}
balance 0.105 STEEM
savings_balance 0.000 STEEM
hbd_balance 0.114 SBD
hbd_seconds 73555602
hbd_seconds_last_update 2021-06-28 08:32:06+00:00
hbd_last_interest_payment 2021-06-07 08:42:12+00:00
savings_hbd_balance 0.000 SBD
savings_hbd_seconds 0
savings_hbd_seconds_last_update 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
savings_hbd_last_interest_payment 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
savings_withdraw_requests 0
reward_hbd_balance 0.000 SBD
reward_hive_balance 0.000 STEEM
reward_vesting_balance 328436.791168 VESTS
reward_vesting_hive {'amount': '175112', 'precision': 3, 'nai': '@@000000021'}
vesting_shares 147684609.966928 VESTS
delegated_vesting_shares 0.000000 VESTS
received_vesting_shares 0.000000 VESTS
vesting_withdraw_rate 0.000000 VESTS
post_voting_power {'amount': '147684609966928', 'precision': 6, 'nai': '@@000000037'}
next_vesting_withdrawal 1969-12-31 23:59:59+00:00
withdrawn 122859332919074
to_withdraw 122859332919074
withdraw_routes 0
pending_transfers 0
curation_rewards 19327251
posting_rewards 24999078
proxied_vsf_votes [3287206225735, 0, 0, 0]
witnesses_voted_for 29
last_post 2020-12-29 23:20:18+00:00
last_root_post 2020-12-29 22:22:42+00:00
last_post_edit 2020-12-29T23:20:18
last_vote_time 2021-08-04 20:36:42+00:00
post_bandwidth 0
pending_claimed_accounts 904
open_recurrent_transfers 0
is_smt False
delayed_votes []
governance_vote_expiration_ts 2022-10-03T08:57:45
```

As you can see, @holger80 has (with skills I do not have) preformatted that data.
It's just that ``reward_hbd_balance 0.000 SBD`` makes no sense.

When I use dhive instead, which is much less abstracted and also uses the get_accounts HIVE API call, it returns this set:

code:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@hiveio/dhive@latest/dist/dhive.js"></script>
<script>
let myAccount = 'holger80';
let client = new dhive.Client(["https://anyx.io"]);

client.database.getAccounts([myAccount]).then(function(result) {   
    result.forEach(account => {    
        console.log(account)
    })
})

</script>
</html>
```

result:

```
active: {account_auths: Array(0), key_auths: Array(1), weight_threshold: 1}
balance: "0.105 HIVE"
can_vote: true
comment_count: 0
created: "2017-12-29T10:07:45"
curation_rewards: 19327251
delayed_votes: []
delegated_vesting_shares: "0.000000 VESTS"
downvote_manabar: {current_mana: "36921736198976", last_update_time: 1628151795}
governance_vote_expiration_ts: "2022-10-03T08:57:45"
guest_bloggers: []
hbd_balance: "0.114 HBD"
hbd_last_interest_payment: "2021-06-07T08:42:12"
hbd_seconds: "73555602"
hbd_seconds_last_update: "2021-06-28T08:32:06"
id: 538086
json_metadata: "{\"profile\":{\"name\":\"Holger\",\"about\":\"beem Developer, Steem Witness, beempy.com, steemrewarding.com\",\"website\":\"https://github.com/holgern/beem\",\"location\":\"Germany\",\"cover_image\":\"https://farm1.staticflickr.com/894/26382750057_69f5c8e568.jpg\",\"profile_image\":\"https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4715/38733717165_7070227c89_n.jpg\",\"witness_description\":\"Developer of several python libs: beem/beempy, steemengine and maker of steemrewarding.com, beempy.com and fullnodeupdate. Developer of Scot and part of the Nextcolony team. \",\"dtube_pub\":\"2AXePjH4fW35mjcrFMxC8rf4nkG4Yao2nUHq6XETxb7gP\"}}"
last_account_recovery: "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
last_account_update: "2020-12-28T22:09:06"
last_owner_update: "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
last_post: "2020-12-29T23:20:18"
last_root_post: "2020-12-29T22:22:42"
last_vote_time: "2021-08-04T20:36:42"
lifetime_vote_count: 0
market_history: []
memo_key: "STM6MQBLaX9Q15CK3prXoWK4C6EqtsL7C4rqq1h6BQjxvfk9tuT3N"
mined: false
name: "holger80"
next_vesting_withdrawal: "1969-12-31T23:59:59"
open_recurrent_transfers: 0
other_history: []
owner: {account_auths: Array(0), key_auths: Array(1), weight_threshold: 1}
pending_claimed_accounts: 904
pending_transfers: 0
post_bandwidth: 0
post_count: 1525
post_history: []
post_voting_power: "147686944.795905 VESTS"
posting: {account_auths: Array(10), key_auths: Array(1), weight_threshold: 1}
posting_json_metadata: "{\"profile\":{\"name\":\"Holger\",\"about\":\"beem Developer, Hive Witness, beempy.com, rewarding.app\",\"website\":\"https://github.com/holgern/beem\",\"location\":\"Germany\",\"cover_image\":\"https://farm1.staticflickr.com/894/26382750057_69f5c8e568.jpg\",\"profile_image\":\"https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4715/38733717165_7070227c89_n.jpg\",\"witness_description\":\"Developer of several python libs: beem/beempy, hiveengine and maker of rewarding.app and fullnodeupdate. \",\"dtube_pub\":\"2AXePjH4fW35mjcrFMxC8rf4nkG4Yao2nUHq6XETxb7gP\",\"version\":2}}"
posting_rewards: 24999078
proxied_vsf_votes: (4) ["3287206225735", 0, 0, 0]
proxy: ""
received_vesting_shares: "0.000000 VESTS"
recovery_account: "recovery.account"
reputation: "358857509568825"
reset_account: "null"
reward_hbd_balance: "0.000 HBD"
reward_hive_balance: "0.000 HIVE"
reward_vesting_balance: "328436.791168 VESTS"
reward_vesting_hive: "175.112 HIVE"
savings_balance: "0.000 HIVE"
savings_hbd_balance: "0.000 HBD"
savings_hbd_last_interest_payment: "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
savings_hbd_seconds: "0"
savings_hbd_seconds_last_update: "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
savings_withdraw_requests: 0
tags_usage: []
to_withdraw: "122859332919074"
transfer_history: []
vesting_balance: "0.000 HIVE"
vesting_shares: "147686944.795905 VESTS"
vesting_withdraw_rate: "0.000000 VESTS"
vote_history: []
voting_manabar: {current_mana: "147686944795905", last_update_time: 1628151795}
voting_power: 9019
withdraw_routes: 0
withdrawn: "122859332919074"
witness_votes: (29) ["abit", "actifit", "aggroed", "anyx", "arcange", "blocktrades", "bobinson", "cervantes", "deathwing", "dragosroua", "emrebeyler", "engrave", "fbslo", "followbtcnews", "gtg", "guiltyparties", "holger80", "ocd-witness", "quochuy", "qurator", "roelandp", "roomservice", "someguy123", "steempeak", "stem.witness", "techcoderx", "themarkymark", "therealwolf", "timcliff"]
witnesses_voted_for: 29
[[Prototype]]: Object

```

``reward_hbd_balance: "0.000 HBD"`` <- seems right.
I presume, this is just the raw data which the underlying API call returns.
No special beem magic (which sometimes can be a blessing) and it just works and returns the real values.

I did not want to be lazy and just complain, so I tried fixing beem myself.
It should be easy to somewhere find holger's type- definitions...

...but I could simply not find it anywhere.

Again: I am not knocking beem.
It is so helpful.
But under the hood it is too complicated for me.
I can not seem to find the module, where these type formats are defined, because the whole thing is in different modules and hence _all over the place_.

The annoying part is: If it wasn't for holger's (over)engineering, the bug would not even exist.
The raw call would work just fine.

Holger does not reply to my dm's on Discord, which is fine.
I am grateful enough that he made beem in the first place.

I only have to string-manipulate the data and replace 'SBD' with 'HBD' and it works again.

...I just run into these problems all the time...

## hive-python

I could use hive-python by @pharesim, instead:
https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/hive-python

Looks ok, so I click on the documentation, which redirects me here:

https://hive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

That is not even the right documentation, ffs.
#### The first click I make redirects me to the wrong documentation!
I told pharesim about this months ago.
It is still not fixed.
I am not touching hive-python, as it is not being maintained at all and was never finished in the first place.

I don't know who will read this post and I don't know what to do next.

For me, the best solution would be a low level python library without all the beem magic.

#### beem lite?

All the bugs I have run into in the last years taught me so much, that I would for any real project try to write my own purpose-build Python library.
At this point, it is easier to construct the calls myself and deal with the raw data, rather than fixing beem, or hive-python.

Maybe, I should restart my witness and make that my thing: building beem-lite, a library that just **works**; If I wrote a proposal, it would never go through. Sad.

Again: **holger's beem is the best library and I learned so much from analyzing and trying to bugfix it**- but it reached a point where it is too complicated for a noob like myself. 
I doubt that someone, who hasn't looked into it as much as me or is not a programming wizzard like holger, can even use the advantages of beem.

Not sure what to do, just wanted to express my troubles on-chain.