I (naively) ran the code in the prologue of the pybitshares docs:
from bitshares import BitShares
bitshares = BitShares()
bitshares.wallet.create("secret-passphrase")
bitshares.wallet.addPrivateKey("<wif-key>")
And after being unable to unlock the wallet for a transfer:
from bitshares import BitShares
bitshares = BitShares()
bitshares.wallet.unlock("wallet-passphrase")
bitshares.transfer("<to>", "<amount>", "<asset>", "[<memo>]", account="<from>")
I found a website that converts to and from WIF keys (
http://gobittest.appspot.com/PrivateKey) and (naively) used that to create a wallet (unaware of this information on how to create a real wallet and add a WIF key given here -
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=26177.0).
So, now I am stuck with having created a wallet that is not truly on the bitshares blockchain.
I would like to completely erase the wallet I (naively) created.
pip uninstall bitshares ; pip install bitshares
did not get rid of the wallet I created but can no longer get in.
I would like to instead run the wallet creation code with the wallet I just created. There is a small problem though: when I went to wallet.bitshares.org to create the wallet, it seems that it was created as a sub-account of "floatation8" not as a full-account. The reason I say that is that the account I created (adsactlybot8) has no password - at no point in the account creation process was I prompted to enter a password for the new account. This I do not see how wallet.create('secret-passphrase') would work: is this passphrase supposed to be the same as the one when the wallet was created or a new one?