So in my last post "Obtaining total harvesting balances for Symbol nodes" I showed you how we can use the Symbol Python SDK and MongoDB to retrieve the addresses and account balances of all accounts harvesting on all API nodes across the Symbol network. Today...

Following on from my previous post about writing Symbol transactions in Python I have a short post showing how NEM transactions can be sent using the Python SDK. I haven't covered all transaction types but this should give an idea of how to get started....

Introduction This document provides examples of common Symbol transaction types written using the Python SDK. The Symbol Python SDK is a powerful tool that enables developers to interact with the Symbol blockchain and build applications with ease. This guide is aimed at beginners and assumes no...

Good morning everyone, hope you're all well! It's that time of the week again and you guys have been busy building so I am back with another Symbol Blog update! Quick Learning Symbol The English version of XEMbook's "Quick Learning Symbol" has been released! Thank you Radio...

This article is a continuation of CHATTING WITH PEERS FOR FUN AND PROFIT. If you have not already read that article, you should read it and we’ll be waiting for you! One of the limitations of that article is that we omitted proper certificate verification using ssl.CERT_NONE. That...

Background This guide will walk through calling basic catapult client C++ functions from python using cffi. For the purposes of this example, we will be calling the following functions from VRF.h: /// Generates a verifiable random function proof from \a alpha and \a keyPair. VrfProof GenerateVrfProof(const RawBuffer& alpha, const...

In this article, I cover how to connect to MongoDB on a Symbol API or dual node and query the database directly. I cover how to manipulate the data using pandas and make different types of plots using matplotlib and other visualisation packages....

THIS EXAMPLE IS NO LONGER WORKING - PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ARTICLE FOR AN UPDATED EXAMPLE Gimre posted this tweet a while back now and I wanted to give it a go but kind of thought that someone else would solve it in...

In this Symbol Blog article I am going to write about the experiences of some of the XYMbassadors (aka Community Managers) in their efforts to learn how to code in Python. Some of them had previous programming experience and others were complete novices starting from...