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Overview of Azure SDK for Python fundamentals

The articles listed in the following table equip developers with the foundational concepts and core behaviors that underpin every client library in the Azure SDK for Python. These subjects are considered fundamentals because they establish the essential building blocks for effective, idiomatic, and resilient application development across all Azure services.

Whether you work with HTTP retries, handle errors, understand SDK response types, or follow consistent language design guidelines, these articles provide the baseline knowledge required to confidently navigate and extend your use of the Azure SDK. Mastering these fundamentals ensures that you write functional code that's also maintainable, robust, and aligned with best practices across the Azure ecosystem.

Article title Purpose
Handle errors produced by the Azure SDK for Python Describes the SDK's comprehensive error model. Includes best practices for handling specific exception types and implementing resilient error-handling strategies.
HTTP pipeline and retries in the Azure SDK libraries for Python Provides a deep dive into the SDK's internal HTTP pipeline. Shows how policies like retries, logging, and authentication are layered to manage requests and responses.
Understand common response types in the Azure SDK for Python Explains how SDK methods return intuitive, strongly typed Python objects to simplify how you work with Azure responses and long-running operations.
Azure SDK Language Design Guidelines for Python Outlines the conventions and design patterns that are used across the SDK to ensure consistency, usability, and alignment with Python best practices.