generate a bitcoin address in python

generate_bitcoin_addr.py

#
# generate a bitcoin address with python
# author: Christoph Maurer 2017
#
# install:
# easy_install ecdsa
# pip install base58
#


from ecdsa import SigningKey, SECP256k1
import hashlib
import base58
import binascii

def generate_bitcoin_address():
    sk = SigningKey.generate(curve=SECP256k1)
    vk = sk.get_verifying_key()

    private_key = sk.to_string()
    public_key = '\x04' + vk.to_string() #0x04 = uncompressed key

    h = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
    h.update(hashlib.sha256(public_key).digest())
    fingerprint = '\x00' + h.digest() # 0x00 = version byte
 
    checksum = hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(fingerprint).digest()).digest()
    address = base58.b58encode(fingerprint + checksum[:4])

    return (address, private_key, public_key)

(address, private_key, public_key) = generate_bitcoin_address()
print "address = %s" % (address)
print "public key = %s" % (binascii.hexlify(public_key))
print "private key = %s" % (binascii.hexlify(private_key))