Claude Platform
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Everything you need to integrate Claude into your applications. From first API call to production.
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import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic()
message = client.messages.create(
model="claude-opus-4-8",
max_tokens=1024,
messages=[{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello, Claude"
}]
)
print(message.content[0].text)Platform
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