DefaultAsyncHttpxClient() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the DefaultAsyncHttpxClient() function in _base_client.py from the anthropic-sdk-python codebase.

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Source Code

src/anthropic/_base_client.py lines 1521–1530

    DefaultAsyncHttpxClient = httpx.AsyncClient
    """An alias to `httpx.AsyncClient` that provides the same defaults that this SDK
    uses internally.

    This is useful because overriding the `http_client` with your own instance of
    `httpx.AsyncClient` will result in httpx's defaults being used, not ours.
    """

    DefaultAioHttpClient = httpx.AsyncClient
    """An alias to `httpx.AsyncClient` that changes the default HTTP transport to `aiohttp`."""