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Before I run a function transaction, I want to know how much it will cost so I am trying to run estimateGas() like the docs say but I can't seem to get it to work.

appropriate_gas_amount = 300000
transaction = contract.functions.getName(
    account,
).buildTransaction({
    'gas' : appropriate_gas_amount,
    'nonce' : w3.eth.get_transaction_count(wallet_address)
})
print("transaction", transaction)

signed_tx = w3.eth.account.sign_transaction(transaction, key)
print("signed_tx", signed_tx)

gas_estimate = w3.eth.estimateGas(signed_tx)
print("gas_estimate", gas_estimate)

I keep getting

AttributeError: 'SignedTransaction' object has no attribute 'items'

For the line gas_estimate = w3.eth.estimateGas(signed_tx)

Unsure if this is an infura issue but am I wrong in how I am trying to accomplish this?

2 Answers 2

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You have to estimate on the built tx, not the signed. For your code that would be the transaction variable.

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  • how to set estimated gas into transaction?
    – att
    Dec 16, 2021 at 21:26
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ETH has shifted to dynamic pricing, see EIP-1159. One way to estimate gas is to pull in the previous block and find the median value of gas paid

def _estimate_gas(transactions) -> int:
    # Returns the median of the gas in previous block transactions
    return int(median(t.gas for t in transactions)) 


w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider("RPC"))
block = w3.eth.get_block("latest", full_transactions=True)
gas = _estimate_gas(block.transactions)

gasPrice on the other hand is very easy, just use w3.eth.gas_price

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