How to Use the Claude API with Python

You have a Python script. You want it to think. That’s the whole premise. This tutorial shows you how to connect your code to Claude — Anthropic’s AI model — so it can read, reason, and respond inside your own projects. I wrote this after spending an afternoon figuring it out myself. No prior AI experience needed. If you’ve written a Python function before, you can follow this. Before You Start Two things are worth knowing up front. First, the API costs money. Not much — $5 gets you weeks of nor