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I've been using local_account = w3.eth.account.create(keys['private_key_1']) to create a local account offline. When I check the public key returned from local_account.address it does not match the existing public key. What should I do?
P.S. The key returned is a string & I've tried changing the private key format from "0x12345" to "12345". I think this is a solution but I can't figure out how to instantiate the class and call the from_key method.
That's because the attribute of the function w3.eth.account.create(...) is not the private key.
To generate an account from an external private key you must use the function w3.eth.account.privateKeyToAccount(...).
Example:
>>> private_key = "f8f8a2f43c8376ccb0871305060d7b27b0554d2cc72bccf41b2705608452f315"
>>> acct = w3.eth.account.privateKeyToAccount(private_key)
>>> acct.address
'0x001d3F1ef827552Ae1114027BD3ECF1f086bA0F9'
privateKeyToAccount will be deprecated for version 0.5 and replaced by w3.eth.account.from_key(...).
Example:
>>> private_key = 0xf8f8a2f43c8376ccb0871305060d7b27b0554d2cc72bccf41b2705608452f315
>>> acct = Account.from_key(private_key)
>>> acct.address
'0x001d3F1ef827552Ae1114027BD3ECF1f086bA0F9'
w3.eth.defaultAccount = acct where acct is the account created previously. Check w3.eth.defaultAccount.address.
.transact() on a contract when setting w3.eth.default_account = Account.from_key(private_key). Look like it's expecting a string.
Jun 16, 2021 at 11:37
acct.address since it is the address as a string.
transact({'from': acct.address}) instead of transact({'from': acct}).