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title: "Anthropic SDK for Python - GitHub Repository"
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# Anthropic SDK for Python - GitHub Repository

Claude SDK for Python The Claude SDK for Python provides access to the Claude API from Python applications. Documentation Full documentation is available at platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/sdks/python . Installation pip install anthropic Getting started import os from anthropic import Anthropic client = Anthropic ( api_key = os . environ . get ( "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" ), # This is the default and can be omitted ) message = client . messages . create ( max_tokens = 1024 , messages = [ { "role" : "user" , "content" : "Hello, Claude" , } ], model = "claude-opus-4-6" , ) print ( message . content ) Requirements Python 3.9+ Contributing See CONTRIBUTING.md . License This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.