iter_text() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

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

Function python AnthropicClient SyncClient calls 1 called by 1

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Dependency Diagram

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  9123cca6_863f_681e_1493_b143c25fb80b["AsyncAPIResponse"]
  8e420988_6fa3_43c4_d951_3296d2b31465 -->|defined in| 9123cca6_863f_681e_1493_b143c25fb80b
  949dcc11_a54e_01b2_4044_ae5fbeb2b642["iter_text()"]
  949dcc11_a54e_01b2_4044_ae5fbeb2b642 -->|calls| 8e420988_6fa3_43c4_d951_3296d2b31465
  949dcc11_a54e_01b2_4044_ae5fbeb2b642["iter_text()"]
  8e420988_6fa3_43c4_d951_3296d2b31465 -->|calls| 949dcc11_a54e_01b2_4044_ae5fbeb2b642
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Source Code

src/anthropic/_response.py lines 500–506

    async def iter_text(self, chunk_size: int | None = None) -> AsyncIterator[str]:
        """A str-iterator over the decoded response content
        that handles both gzip, deflate, etc but also detects the content's
        string encoding.
        """
        async for chunk in self.http_response.aiter_text(chunk_size):
            yield chunk