Make AI and Python your campanion
Bad data breaks good code. You’ve written Python that works perfectly in testing, only to watch it fail in production because of a malformed API request, a messy CSV, or a missing config value. That’s the hidden cost of Python’s flexibility: without runtime validation, you’re always one bad input away from a crash. Enter Pydantic. This book takes you from the foundations of data validation to real-world applications in APIs, data pipelines, configurations, and machine learning workflows. Along the way, you’ll explore practical techniques, advanced features, and alternatives like Marshmallow, attrs, and dataclasses, so you’ll always know which tool is right for the job. If you’re a Python developer, data engineer, or FastAPI user, this is your roadmap to writing safer, cleaner, and more reliable code.