Didn't see this one when I made mine. Fixes everything on my machine.

Didn't see this one when I made mine. Fixes everything on my machine.

This PR is also failing the travis checks, and like you I'm not familiar with it's use. I think the issue is because the tests are written assuming that solc is installed to /usr/bin but with how I've modified it, solc is now installed elsewhere. Also this PR will need some more work to support windows users. As suggested in the community guidelines, this is more meant to open a discussion as to whether this approach is one that's worth working on further.

Yeah it looks like @pipermerriam and co are pretty busy over at web3.py getting it up to speed with Sol 0.5.x, hopefully the wrapper fixes are fairly easy and we can bring this up to spec soon as well. As far as I know, the clone-bin issue was the only breaking change for the wrapper.

Any updates on this?

It's very likely that py-solc is going to be formally deprecated and no longer maintained in the very near term future. It's an old carry-over from populus and wrapping solidity APIs like this has a large maintenance load that we can't justify.

@pipermerriam Thanks for the update. Do you see any alternative to py-solc?

Not that we plan to build/maintain but it should be quite trivial to fork this repository and maintain/update it yourself if it is an important part of your stack.

@pipermerriam thanks for letting us know, and for your work on this project to date. I rely on py-solc a fair bit, so I will continue to maintain the repo I have forked and upload it to pypi under a similar name.

Update - my forked repo is now available on pypi:

pip install py-solc-x