Ethereum how to create account on parity hosted on Kovan network?

Question

I have a parity node hosted on kovan network. How to create account using web3py? I used web3.personal.newAccount()=>which is giving error as no method found.

What are the api's available for parity?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the personal module is not standardized across clients. parity supports a different API than geth. Some alternatives for creating an account:

1. Use locally managed keys, OR
2. Create the accounts on the parity node using the CLI

Local keys

>>> my_account = w3.eth.account.create('add something random here to improve key generation')
>>> transaction = {
...     'to': '0xF0109fC8DF283027b6285cc889F5aA624EaC1F55',
...     'value': 1000000000,
...     'gas': 2000000,
...     'gasPrice': 234567897654321,
...     'nonce': 0,
...     'chainId': 1
... }
>>> signed = my_account.signTransaction(transaction)
>>> w3.eth.sendRawTransaction(signed.rawTransaction) 

Parity CLI

parity --chain kovan account new
Loading config file from users.toml
Please note that password is NOT RECOVERABLE.
Type password: 
Repeat password:
0x66a4b6f39b4c3e7203ab9caeecbad58d8f29b046