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Call a local model from plain Python: no SDK, no dependencies

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Most "use a local model" tutorials start with a virtualenv and a dozen packages. For a small tool you may not need any of them. If a local Ollama server is running, Python's standard library is enough to talk to it. I used this approach in Sportello chiaro, a small helper I built to explain Swiss a…

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