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-navsection: userguide
-navmenu: Reference
+navsection: sdk
+navmenu: Python
title: "Python SDK"
-navorder: 23
+navorder: 10
---
-h1. Reference: Python SDK
+h1. Python SDK
The Python SDK provides a generic set of wrappers so you can make API calls easily. It performs some validation before connecting to the API server: for example, it refuses to do an API call if a required parameter is missing.
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-If the SDK is installed and your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":api-tokens.html for details), @import arvados@ should produce no errors:
+If the SDK is installed and your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":{{site.basedoc}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html for details), @import arvados@ should produce no errors:
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<pre>$ <code class="userinput">python</code>