How to access Parity node's mempool with web3.py?

Question

I'm running a Parity node with parity --jsonrpc-api all, then connecting to it in python3 with w3 = web3.Web3(web3.HTTPProvider('http://localhost:8545')).

I can call print(w3.eth.getBlock('latest')) and see the results fine, but I cannot call w3.txpool.inspect - I get ValueError: {'code': -32601, 'message': 'Method not found'}

It seems that web3.py only knows about Geth mempool functions?
How can I call Parity's parity_allTransactionHashes method in python (https://wiki.parity.io/JSONRPC-parity-module.html#parity_alltransactionhashes)?

Answer 1

You can’t as the method isn’t implemented. You would have to call the raw Json rpc endpoint directly from your script.