del() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

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

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Dependency Diagram

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  9b04cf68_c305_6931_ad0f_dca9ae0be3d6["aclose()"]
  2b9a4a24_d17e_e40e_5724_0a11ae332cde -->|calls| 9b04cf68_c305_6931_ad0f_dca9ae0be3d6
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Source Code

src/anthropic/_base_client.py lines 1537–1545

    def __del__(self) -> None:
        if self.is_closed:
            return

        try:
            # TODO(someday): support non asyncio runtimes here
            asyncio.get_running_loop().create_task(self.aclose())
        except Exception:
            pass