Reading deployed contract state in Python

Question

I'd like to monitor (or poll or just do one off reads in the first place) a contract I deploy in the Ethereum network from a Python server-side application. Specifically it's a modified standard token contract deployed by me and I'd like to now and then check the status of accounts.

• What options I have: Interacting via RPC with geth (using ethjsonrpc https://github.com/ConsenSys/ethjsonrpc) or any API services?

• I'd like to read the current contract state variables - how do I can get access to current state variables over RPC?

Answer 1

you effectively can use ethjsonrpc which implements the 62 methods

you can also try to look at populus and what it brings :

• testing stuff especially the ipc client which may be an alternative if you prefer dealing with the socket.
• interact with contracts , that's probably what you dreamt of ;)