Is it possible to deploy a contract from python web3 if I have the ABI and bytecode from Remix?

Question

Question says it all. I have a contract that I've written and compiled via Remix. I've dumped the ABI and Bytecode into local files, and I'm reading them into my python application. I'm following the documentation (https://web3py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contracts.html) and trying to instantiate like:

mycontract = w3.eth.contract(abi=ABI,bytecode=BYTECODE)

where ABI is the copy-pasted abi from Remix, and the BYTECODE is the copy-pasted bytecode from Remix.

But I get a TypeError: Could not format value {'linkReferences': {}, 'object': '6080604...

I should mention that I can instantiate the contract the the same ABI and an address that the contract has been deployed to via Remix, and then successfully monitor the contract to log events. But what I would really like to do is deploy the contract from Python, using the locally stored abi and bytecode generated by Remix.

Currently, the "bytecode" that Remix provides is in a structure like this:

{
  'linkReferences':[],
  'object': '6080604052336000806...',
  'opcodes': 'PUSH1 0x80...',
  'sourcemap': '50:1984:0:-;;;2...'
}

Answer 1

I figured out the answer to my own question. Yes, it's possible.

The contract expects only the "object" value of the "bytecode" structure provided by Remix. Currently, when you click to copy the "bytecode" from Remix, you end up with a structure that looks like this:

bytecode = {
  'linkReferences':[],
  'object': '6080604052336000806...',
  'opcodes': 'PUSH1 0x80...',
  'sourcemap': '50:1984:0:-;;;2...'
}

I was passing this whole structure as the bytecode argument, which is wrong. The contract is only expecting the "object" value.