How to Create Steemit Accounts using the Steempy CLI

I just tried to create a new Steemit account using Steempy and got an error, so as much to make a note for myself as help others in the same situation, here is what you need to do to create a Steemit account on your command line using Steempy!

Here is the first error I got:

ValueError: Not creator account given. Define it with creator=x, or set the default_account using steempy

That is because I was missing the parameter for which account should be the creator.

This is the correct format, if your creator account is not already stored as the default:

steempy newaccount NEWACCOUNTNAME --account YOURACCOUNT

If the account already exists you will see this error:

AccountExistsException

If this error shows ...

!check_max_block_age( _max_block_age ): 

... then your chosen node might be bad/dow. If so you can try:

steempy set nodes https://rpc.steemviz.com

Once you have had some errors you might get this error:

ValueError: Key already in storage

You will need to list your accounts:

steempy listaccounts

... then delete the bad keys ...

steempy delkey BADKEYHERE000111QWERTYUIOPQWERTYUIOP

Hope this helps!