Web3.py contract owner address return null address

March 14, 2023

I am trying to get the owner’s address of a contract, but the address is always coming back with a 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 address. Can someone validate if I am missing something in my code to be able to parse the address?

The API key was masked from the code below.

from web3 import Web3

providerURL = 'https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/[api-key]'
abi 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contractAddress = '0xBC4CA0EdA7647A8aB7C2061c2E118A18a936f13D'

#connect to remote provider
w3 = Web3(Web3.HTTPProvider(providerURL))
print('Connected to provider:', w3.isConnected())

#create an instance of the contract
contractInstance = w3.eth.contract(address=contractAddress, abi=abi)

#Task-01
owner = contractInstance.functions.owner().call()
print('owner: ',owner)