Reports the number of blocks in the ledger and unchecked synchronizing
        blocks

        :raises: :py:exc:`nano.rpc.RPCException`

        >>> rpc.block_count()
        {
          "count": 1000,
          "unchecked": 10
        }

def block_count(self):
        """
        Reports the number of blocks in the ledger and unchecked synchronizing
        blocks

        :raises: :py:exc:`nano.rpc.RPCException`

        >>> rpc.block_count()
        {
          "count": 1000,
          "unchecked": 10
        }

        """

        resp = self.call('block_count')

        for k, v in resp.items():
            resp[k] = int(v)

        return resp