Paymentkit Python Library

The Paymentkit Python library provides convenient access to the Paymentkit APIs from Python.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Environments
• Async Client
• Exception Handling
• Advanced
  • Access Raw Response Data
  • Retries
  • Timeouts
  • Custom Client
• Documentation
• Reference
• License
• Contributing

Installation

pip install payment-kit

Usage

Instantiate and use the client with the following:

from payment_kit import PaymentKit

client = PaymentKit(
    token="YOUR_TOKEN",
)
client.accounts.create_account(
    name="Production Environment",
    organization_id="org_dev_x7k9m2n4p8q1",
)

Environments

Environment	Base URL
Production	https://app.paymentkit.com
Staging	https://staging.paymentkit.com

# Production (default)
client = PaymentKit(
    token="YOUR_API_TOKEN",
    base_url="https://app.paymentkit.com",
)

# Staging
client = PaymentKit(
    token="YOUR_API_TOKEN",
    base_url="https://staging.paymentkit.com",
)

Async Client

The SDK also exports an async client so that you can make non-blocking calls to our API. Note that if you are constructing an Async httpx client class to pass into this client, use httpx.AsyncClient() instead of httpx.Client() (e.g. for the httpx_client parameter of this client).

import asyncio

from payment_kit import AsyncPaymentKit

client = AsyncPaymentKit(
    token="YOUR_TOKEN",
)


async def main() -> None:
    await client.accounts.create_account(
        name="Production Environment",
        organization_id="org_dev_x7k9m2n4p8q1",
    )


asyncio.run(main())

Exception Handling

When the API returns a non-success status code (4xx or 5xx response), a subclass of the following error will be thrown.

from payment_kit.core.api_error import ApiError

try:
    client.accounts.create_account(...)
except ApiError as e:
    print(e.status_code)
    print(e.body)

Advanced

Access Raw Response Data

The SDK provides access to raw response data, including headers, through the .with_raw_response property. The .with_raw_response property returns a "raw" client that can be used to access the .headers and .data attributes.

from payment_kit import PaymentKit

client = PaymentKit(
    ...,
)
response = client.accounts.with_raw_response.create_account(...)
print(response.headers)  # access the response headers
print(response.data)  # access the underlying object

Retries

The SDK is instrumented with automatic retries with exponential backoff. A request will be retried as long as the request is deemed retryable and the number of retry attempts has not grown larger than the configured retry limit (default: 2).

A request is deemed retryable when any of the following HTTP status codes is returned:

• 408 (Timeout)
• 429 (Too Many Requests)
• 5XX (Internal Server Errors)

Use the max_retries request option to configure this behavior.

client.accounts.create_account(..., request_options={
    "max_retries": 1
})

Timeouts

The SDK defaults to a 60 second timeout. You can configure this with a timeout option at the client or request level.

from payment_kit import PaymentKit

client = PaymentKit(
    ...,
    timeout=20.0,
)


# Override timeout for a specific method
client.accounts.create_account(..., request_options={
    "timeout_in_seconds": 1
})

Custom Client

You can override the httpx client to customize it for your use-case. Some common use-cases include support for proxies and transports.

import httpx
from payment_kit import PaymentKit

client = PaymentKit(
    ...,
    httpx_client=httpx.Client(
        proxy="http://my.test.proxy.example.com",
        transport=httpx.HTTPTransport(local_address="0.0.0.0"),
    ),
)

Documentation

• API Reference
• Guides

Reference

A full reference for this library is available here.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Contributing

While we value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is generated programmatically. Additions made directly to this library would have to be moved over to our generation code, otherwise they would be overwritten upon the next generated release. Feel free to open a PR as a proof of concept, but know that we will not be able to merge it as-is. We suggest opening an issue first to discuss with us!

On the other hand, contributions to the README are always very welcome!