Why Every Python Developer Needs Pydantic?

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Working with data should be easy, right? Clean, clear, and predictable. But it is almost impossible...That’s where Pydantic steps in: a powerful Python data validation library that brings sanity to your data workflows. It makes working with structured data clean, efficient, and scalable.

Think of it like a bouncer for your data. You set the rules—like “this needs to be a string” or “that has to be a number”—and if something doesn’t match, Pydantic throws a flag before anything breaks. It catches bad data early, so you don’t have to deal with weird bugs later on.

I found Pydantic while working on a FastAPI project, and I didn’t realize how much I needed it until I started using it. Now I reach for it all the time—whenever I’m handling user input, API data, or anything coming in from the outside.

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I’m still a big fan of SQL Alchemy as that is my go-to, but Pydantic is different, and you are about to see why. But don’t get me wrong, you will see a lot of similarities too!

In this article, I’ll show you how to build models, check your data, and use some of the cool features that make Pydantic so powerful.

What makes it so great is how much work it does behind the scenes without making your code a mess. It keeps things tidy and easy to read. And like with Scrapy, this is just the start—there’s way more you can do, like writing custom validators or converting data straight to JSON without extra steps.

Later on, I’ll go deeper and show you how this fits into bigger projects, especially when you’re building APIs or handling scraped data. But for now, let’s keep it simple and get rolling.

Go ahead and install it with:

pip3 install pydantic

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