Which Python library does Anthropic officially provide for interacting with the Claude API?
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Anthropic ships its own Python SDK — pip install anthropic — which wraps the REST API with convenience methods, type hints, streaming support, and automatic retries.
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Full Explanation
Anthropic provides an official Python SDK (anthropic) installable via pip install anthropic. It provides: typed message creation, streaming support, automatic retry logic, environment variable API key management, and async support. While you can use the raw requests library to call the REST API directly, the official SDK is recommended. Option A (requests) works but requires manual implementation. Option C (openai) is the OpenAI SDK and is not compatible with Claude (though some third-party compatibility layers exist). Option D (langchain) is a framework that can include Claude but is not required and not Anthropic's official library.