# Send events
Source: https://www.inngest.com/docs/reference/python/client/send

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    💡️ This guide is for sending events from *outside* an Inngest function. To send events within an Inngest function, refer to the [step.send_event](/docs/reference/python/steps/send-event) guide.
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Sends 1 or more events to the Inngest server. Returns a list of the event IDs.

```py
import inngest

inngest_client = inngest.Inngest(app_id="my_app")