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title: Python Task API
slug: user-guide-10x/python-task-api
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createdAt: 2025-06-18T11:01:37.461Z
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Swimlane has a rich API for interacting with Python scripts inside the integration platform. On each script's initialization, Swimlane automatically passes information about the task to each script through a sw\_context object.

Context objects contain the following:

- **Inputs:** The input parameters defined in the task configuration. These parameters can be literal values, record values, or values from assets. Here's is an example: `sw_context.inputs["ipAddress"]`

  The TASK API passes data between the Swimlane platform and integration tasks as serialized JSON, which means all the data passed then is converted into character strings.
- **Config:** System-level attributes and internal IDs, including:
  - SwimlaneUrl - The base URL of the Swimlane install.
  - RecordId - The ID of the record that executed the script, if applicable.
  - ApplicationId - The application ID of the record that triggered the script, if applicable. For example: `sw_context.config["SwimlaneUrl"]`
  - **Asset information:** The parameters used to configure the asset, such as an access token or password, associated to the task when a script is executed as a packaged action.

When the script has completed, developers can attach to a global array of dictionaries as output variables. Messages that are printed to the standard output can also be captured.

## Considerations

There are a few scenarios to be aware of when developing Task scripts:

- Attachments: Attachments from emails or record attachment fields that are mapped through the input parameters will be a byte array.
- Dates: Dates that are passed will automatically be converted to UTC Python Date objects rather than a string representation.

:::hint{type="info"}
 When entering dates for API GET calls, format the date as follows: 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z
:::

:::hint{type="danger"}
Do not use `sys.exit()` in your Python script tasks. It will terminate the integration process and will not return any results to Swimlane.
:::

More on setting up Inputs and Outputs, and setting up the asset sw\_context information

Debugger and the output mapping section.