# bech32

**Repository Path**: mirrors_holgern/bech32

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: bech32
- **Description**: Pieter Wuille's reference implementation for Bech32 and segwit addresses
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-12-03
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

bech32 [![travis-ci build status](https://api.travis-ci.com/fiatjaf/bech32.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/fiatjaf/bech32)
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Since this implementation wasn't in a place that was easy to use for Python programmers I took it from from https://github.com/rustyrussell/lightning-payencode and published [on GitHub](https://github.com/fiatjaf/bech32) and [on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/bech32/).

The original version of this package is probably the one at https://github.com/sipa/bech32/tree/master/ref/python, but apparently Rusty Russel commented out the 90-length limit of bech32-encoded stuff so it could be used for Lightning invoices. Let's keep that change.

Install
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```
pip install bech32
```