instead of installing steem-piston, you may try to install python-steem with the following command:
pip3 install steem==0.3.1
I found that the 0.4 version of steem-piston broke all of my scripts, now I download version 0.3.1 of python steem. That does the job for me.
do you suggest uninstalling steem-piston?
hrmm..... had to uninstall the version I had of steem to get it to work.
pip3 uninstall steem=0.4.3
i think It's working noow
Glad you got it working!
I was going to suggest installing steem to a clean operating system with the prerequisites installed. Bot on!