<div class="pull-left"><h1>I</h1></div> <br />had been having a bit of trouble trying to get the python steem library to work, but I have made a breakthrough. I have also learned a couple of neat python tricks for finding out things about libraries you have imported what is inside them and even their documentation (it even is displayed in a pager so you can browse it).

Here is the code that will print out the data of each new block as it comes in:

    #!/usr/bin/python3
    import steem
    from pprint import pprint

    st = steem.blockchain.Blockchain ( )

    for a in st.blocks():
        pprint(a)

You can browse the help within the python shell like so:

     ✘ loki@vaioe  ~  python3
    Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 17 2016, 01:08:31) 
    [GCC 4.8.4] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import steem
    >>> help (steem)
    
    >>> help (steem.blockchain)

In the first you see a list of all the submodules, and then you can add that with a '.' between and get more info.

## Update:

This was what I am working towards, now I can grab the current data, so I can process it and generate something from it:

    #!/usr/bin/python3
    import requests
    import json
    
    r = requests.post ( 'https://node.steem.ws', data = '{"id":8,"method":"get_witnesses_by_vote","params":["","100"]}' )
    output = json.loads ( r.text )
    print ( output )

The output is a bit different to using curl to make the same request:

    curl https://node.steem.ws --data '{"id":8,"method":"get_witnesses_by_vote","params":["","100"]}'

But the content is the same otherwise. 

This particular function is missing from @xeroc's steem (formerly piston) library, this is why I have had to learn how to write the requests. This site helped a lot: 

<a href='http://steemroll.io/api-explorer/#method=get_witnesses_by_vote&params=["","100"]'>http://steemroll.io/api-explorer/#method=get_witnesses_by_vote&params=["","100"]</a>

Yes, that is the same query but through the api explorer. Nice huh?

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