# Python development on $AVAX

$AVAX C-Chain is EVM compatible, so you can use [Web3.py](http://Web3.py) with $AVAX in the same way would with Ethereum.

> It’s commonly found in [decentralized apps (dapps)](https://ethereum.org/dapps/) to help with sending transactions, interacting with smart contracts, reading block data, and a variety of other use cases.
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There's a public API / node provided for the C-Chain (details [here](https://docs.avax.network/build/tools/public-api)), here's an quick example to get started:

import web3
from web3 import Web3
from IPython import embed

	RPC_URL = "https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/43113/rpc"

from web3.middleware import geth_poa_middleware

w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider(RPC_URL))
w3.middleware_onion.inject(geth_poa_middleware, layer=0)

chain_id = w3.eth.chain_id
network_id = w3.net.version

print(f"{chain_id = }, {network_id = }")

embed() 
# go crazy!

A few more things:

- Snowtrace (Etherscan for AVAX) also has some useful information for getting started with development [here](https://snowtrace.io/apis).
- Here's an example of using Web3 to buy and sell from Pangolin (DEX).
- https://github.com/jinnzy/Avalanche-Python-API