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+AuthServiceProxy is an improved version of python-jsonrpc.
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+It includes the following generic improvements:
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+- HTTP connections persist for the life of the AuthServiceProxy object
+- sends protocol 'version', per JSON-RPC 1.1
+- sends proper, incrementing 'id'
+- uses standard Python json lib
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+It also includes the following bitcoin-specific details:
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+- sends Basic HTTP authentication headers
+- parses all JSON numbers that look like floats as Decimal
+
+Installation:
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+- change the first line of setup.py to point to the directory of your installation of python 2.*
+- run setup.py
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+Note: This will only install bitcoinrpc. If you also want to install jsonrpc to preserve 
+backwards compatibility, you have to replace 'bitcoinrpc' with 'jsonrpc' in setup.py and run it again.