Data Science

Pydantic – data validation using Python type hints

Pydantic is a data validation library for Python.

Define how data should be in pure, canonical Python 3.7+; validate it with Pydantic.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Type hints powering schema validation. The schema that Pydantic validates against is generally defined by Python type hints.
  • Core validation logic is implemented in separate package pydantic-core, where validation for most types is implemented in Rust.
  • Provides functionality to serialize model in three ways:
    • To a Python dict made up of the associated Python objects.
    • To a Python dict made up only of “jsonable” types.
    • To a JSON string.
  • JSON Schema can be generated for any Pydantic schema — allowing self-documenting APIs and integration with a wide variety of tools which support JSON Schema.
  • Strict mode and data coercion.
  • Provides four ways to create schemas and perform validation and serialization:
    • BaseModel — Pydantic’s own super class with many common utilities available via instance methods.
    • pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass – a wrapper around standard dataclasses which performs validation when a dataclass is initialized.
    • TypeAdapter – a general way to adapt any type for validation and serialization. This allows types like TypedDict and NampedTuple to be validated as well as simple scalar values like int or timedelta – all types supported can be used with TypeAdapter.
    • validate_call – a decorator to perform validation when calling a function.
  • Customisation

Website: docs.pydantic.dev/latest
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Pydantic Services Inc. and individual contributors
License: MIT License

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