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I am using a different bitcoin library. This prints address and hash160 from a private key:
from bitcoinutils.setup import setup
from bitcoinutils.keys import P2pkhAddress, PrivateKey, PublicKey
def main():
# setup the network
setup('testnet')
# provide a private WIF key
priv = PrivateKey.from_wif('...
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The base58.b58decode and base58.b58encode functions only do the Base 58 decode/encode. However xpubs are encoded with Base 58 Check encoding. The difference is that Base 58 Check encoding computes a checksum of the payload and appends the first 4 bytes of that to the payload before the base 58 encoding.
You need to be using base58.b58decode_check and base58....
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I think you have your magic byte order backwards. It should be 0xf9beb4d9.
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