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<div class="starwars-example-wrapper"><a class="starwars-example" href="http://swapi.graphene-python.org/">Check our Django Starwars API example!</a></div>

## Meet Graphene

Graphene is a Python library for building GraphQL schemas/types fast and easily.

**But, what is GraphQL?** A GraphQL query is a string interpreted by a server that returns data in a specified format. We believe *GraphQL* is the next big thing after peanut butter and *REST*.