Awkard-ish notation of getbalance()

[Namekinek0]

Hi guys, thank you for this project!

I've sent 0.00006691 BTC to this address

but when I run this code

from crypto import * #wallet from here
from bitcoinlib.services.services import Service

address = 'tb1qwan3hcde76dvms76nmhf5h26mxvflcqnt5g4mn'

w.utxos_update()

s = Service(network='testnet')

check = s.getbalance(address)
print(check)

I'd have guessed the output of getbalance() would have looked like what I see from clw, that is 0.00006691
Instead, getbalance() gives me 6691. Why the integer? Is there a way to get the result with decimals as in clw? Thank you.

[mccwdev]

The getbalance() method returns the value in Satoshi's, the smallest denominator for Bitcoin.

You can get the value in bitcoins by dividing by 100000000 or 10**8:

>>> amount / 10**8 
0.00006691

Or you could use bitcoinlib Value class to conveniently display values

>>> from bitcoinlib.values import Value
>>> Value.from_satoshi(6691, 1).str()
'0.00006691 BTC'

[Namekinek0]

Ahhh, that's why. All clear, bless you!