_format_data() — anthropic-sdk-python Function Reference

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

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  76cf4787_3c42_ee68_9967_3160c7a1aa0d -->|calls| 13e71ee3_9bf3_72c5_fd90_2eff2072c9cd
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Source Code

src/anthropic/_utils/_transform.py lines 236–260

def _format_data(data: object, format_: PropertyFormat, format_template: str | None) -> object:
    if isinstance(data, (date, datetime)):
        if format_ == "iso8601":
            return data.isoformat()

        if format_ == "custom" and format_template is not None:
            return data.strftime(format_template)

    if format_ == "base64" and is_base64_file_input(data):
        binary: str | bytes | None = None

        if isinstance(data, pathlib.Path):
            binary = data.read_bytes()
        elif isinstance(data, io.IOBase):
            binary = data.read()

            if isinstance(binary, str):  # type: ignore[unreachable]
                binary = binary.encode()

        if not isinstance(binary, bytes):
            raise RuntimeError(f"Could not read bytes from {data}; Received {type(binary)}")

        return base64.b64encode(binary).decode("ascii")

    return data