Deprecated py-multiaddr usage

[varun-r-mallya]

https://github.com/multiformats/py-multiaddr is not being maintained anymore and the documentation is outdated. I wanted to solve a to-do in the code, but it turns out that the functionality is not provided properly by this library. I cannot even pull request there. Any solutions ?

[varun-r-mallya]

@seetadev Please try running the following code as described in the documentation of py-multiaddr
https://pythonhosted.org/multiaddr/

from multiaddr import Multiaddr

m1 = Multiaddr("/ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/1234")
m1.encapsulate(Multiaddr("/sctp/5678"))
# <Multiaddr /ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/1234/sctp/5678>
m1.decapsulate(Multiaddr("/udp"))
# <Multiaddr /ip4/127.0.0.1>

This does not work as intended and errors out.
I propose forking py-multiaddr and maintaining it actively ourselves.

[seetadev]

@varun-r-mallya : Please visit #645

[varun-r-mallya]

Can I start working this ? I found a TODO that I want to solve and it can be done only after this is done...

[acul71]

What's the TODO ?
wait a bit longer see #645 (reply in thread)