# Azure/azure-sdk-for-python

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.

Repository: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-sdk-for-python
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, azure, azure-sdk, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:21:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5244, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 642}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5593, forks 3347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:22.719929+00:00)

## What it is
The official Azure SDK for Python, a monorepo of client and management libraries for interacting with Azure services from Python. It includes shared core functionality like retries, logging, and authentication via azure-core.

## Use cases
- upload blobs to azure storage from python
- manage azure resources programmatically
- authenticate to azure services in python
- call azure cognitive services from python
- automate azure deployments with python
- query azure cosmos db from a python app

## When to choose
- you are building Python applications that consume or manage Azure services
- you want official, well-supported libraries with consistent auth, retries, and logging
- you need both client libraries and resource management APIs for Azure

## When to avoid
- you are targeting AWS, GCP, or on-premises infrastructure instead of Azure
- you need a lightweight single-service client and prefer a standalone package over the full SDK
- you require a language other than Python

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: sdk, http-client, auth, cloud
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis
- platform: python, cloud
- tags: azure, azure-sdk, client-libraries, management-apis, pypi

## Member repositories
- Azure/azure-sdk-for-python (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.719929+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:55:29.741386+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.719929+00:00, sha 4a9fb1b73f23)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.