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title: Add a schema to TerminusDB with the Python Client
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    title: Add a schema to TerminusDB with the Python Client
    description: A guide to show how to add a schema to TerminusDB projects with the Python Client.
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After you have imported the `terminusdb_client`, and [created a client](/docs/create-database-with-python-client/), and [connected to a database](/docs/connect-to-a-database-with-python-client/) you can create a schema.

## Insert schema document(s)

You can update the schema by adding well-formed JSON schema documents:

```python
schema = [{ '@type' : 'Class', '@id' : 'Country'},
          { '@type' : 'Class', '@id' : 'Person',
            'name' : 'xsd:string',
            'nationality' : 'Country'
          }]
results = client.insert_document(schema,graph_type="schema")
```