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## About Graphene

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

**What is GraphQL?** A GraphQL query is a string interpreted by a server that returns data in a specified format.

- **Easy to use:** Graphene helps you use GraphQL in Python without effort.
- **Relay:** Graphene has builtin support for Relay
- **Django:** Automatic *Django model* mapping to Graphene Types.