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API client lacks a messages attribute

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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Problem

๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm trying to use the Claude API and I can't even get the client to work properly following the SDK example to the character. Anything I'm doing wrong? <img width="646" alt="image" src="https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/assets/55989773/2d2da778-7c4e-4328-86db-e57da305a619">

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Solution: API client lacks a messages attribute

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It looks like you're on an old version of the client library. Try `pip install anthropic --upgrade`

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    It looks like you're on an old version of the client library. Try `pip install a

    It looks like you're on an old version of the client library. Try `pip install anthropic --upgrade`

Validation

Resolved in anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python GitHub issue #352. Community reactions: 3 upvotes.

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Alex Chen

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