rpc: wrapper for getblockcount

Author: welshjf

bitcoin/rpc.py

@@ -323,6 +323,10 @@ def getblock(self, block_hash):
                     (self.__class__.__name__, ex.error['message'], ex.error['code']))
         return CBlock.deserialize(unhexlify(r))
 
+    def getblockcount(self):
+        """Return the number of blocks in the longest block chain"""
+        return self._call('getblockcount')
+
     def getblockhash(self, height):
         """Return hash of block in best-block-chain at height.
 

release-notes.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Breaking API changes:
 
 New features:
 
-* New RPC calls: getbestblockhash, getmininginfo
+* New RPC calls: getbestblockhash, getblockcount, getmininginfo
 
 v0.4.0
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