Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is a preview of the video course, "Testing MCP Servers With a Python MCP Client". Building an MCP client in Python is a great way to test MCP servers directly from your terminal. In this video course, you’ll build a minimal MCP client for the command line. It can connect to an MCP server through the standard input/output (stdio) transport, list the server’s capabilities, and interact with the server’s tools, prompts, and resources directly and deterministically.

This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here: realpython.com/courses/testing-mcp-servers-with-a-python-mcp-client

And the original text tutorial is here: realpython.com/python-mcp-client

The rest of the course covers:
- Connecting the Client to the Server
- Specifying the Server to Connect to Through a CLI
- Listing MCP Server Members
- Exercise: Summarize an MCP Server's Tools
- Getting Prompts
- Fetching Resources
- Exercise: Fetch a Resource by URI
- Calling Tools
- Exercise: Call a Tool With JSON Arguments
- Testing MCP Servers With a Python MCP Client (Quiz)



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