write_to_file() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

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

Function python AnthropicClient SyncAPI calls 2

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Dependency Diagram

graph TD
  0a61dc46_3f02_41b3_b5a0_da3c9ec89abe["write_to_file()"]
  707108e1_1591_e5c4_7fa0_ca26831eab86["HttpxBinaryResponseContent"]
  0a61dc46_3f02_41b3_b5a0_da3c9ec89abe -->|defined in| 707108e1_1591_e5c4_7fa0_ca26831eab86
  59ca99bd_2882_998f_1bd3_9fc565c030f2["stream_to_file()"]
  0a61dc46_3f02_41b3_b5a0_da3c9ec89abe -->|calls| 59ca99bd_2882_998f_1bd3_9fc565c030f2
  45fe0d69_db3d_a57c_6c23_db57ac73d759["iter_bytes()"]
  0a61dc46_3f02_41b3_b5a0_da3c9ec89abe -->|calls| 45fe0d69_db3d_a57c_6c23_db57ac73d759
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Source Code

src/anthropic/_legacy_response.py lines 449–463

    def write_to_file(
        self,
        file: str | os.PathLike[str],
    ) -> None:
        """Write the output to the given file.

        Accepts a filename or any path-like object, e.g. pathlib.Path

        Note: if you want to stream the data to the file instead of writing
        all at once then you should use `.with_streaming_response` when making
        the API request, e.g. `client.with_streaming_response.foo().stream_to_file('my_filename.txt')`
        """
        with open(file, mode="wb") as f:
            for data in self.response.iter_bytes():
                f.write(data)