I am using the Marshmallow library for data validation and serialization. I am allowing None values for some fields in my schema, but I keep getting validation errors even though I have set allow_none = True. class MySchema(Schema): name = fields.String(required=True, allow_none=True) age = fields.Integer(allow_none=True) schema = MySchema() data = {"age": None} result = schema.load(data) print(result) Why is it failing validation for the 'name' field even though allow_none = True ? Continue reading...