What's the difference between using and not using wrapper libraries for APIs?

• pokebase

  4 268 7.1 Python

  Python 3 wrapper for Pokéapi v2

  

On the documentation, it includes a list of wrapper libraries for various languages. The wrapper for Python 3 is pokebase. I'm just learning to use APIs and have not used wrappers before. I read a bit about them but I'm still a bit confused.

• dacite

  4 1,659 3.2 Python

  Simple creation of data classes from dictionaries.

This is a good approach, but FYI there are already very good libraries that can be used to create objects from JSON/dicts in a similar way to your example, like dacite or pydantic. A lot of boilerplate can be avoided with these.

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• pydantic

  167 18,617 9.8 Python

  Data validation using Python type hints

  

This is a good approach, but FYI there are already very good libraries that can be used to create objects from JSON/dicts in a similar way to your example, like dacite or pydantic. A lot of boilerplate can be avoided with these.

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