After following a tutorial to set up the ChatGPT API with Python, utilizing the original documentation provided at , I successfully completed all the necessary steps outlined. Following the recommendation to 'Setup your API key for all projects,' I utilized setex to add the environment variable and duplicated it as a system variable in advanced system settings. Running the echo snippet in the command prompt confirmed that the key was stored correctly without any issues. It was mentioned that once this step is reached, there's no need to provide the API key within the code.
However, upon attempting to run some example code provided:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a poetic assistant, skilled in explaining complex programming concepts with creative flair."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Compose a poem that explains the concept of recursion in programming."}
]
)
print(completion. Choices[0].message)
An error was encountered:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenAIError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[7], line 2
1 from openai import OpenAI
----> 2 client = OpenAI()
4 completion = client.chat.completions.create(
5 model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
6 messages=[
(...)
9 ]
10 )
12 print(completion.choices[0].message)
File ~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\openai\_client.py:93, in OpenAI.__init__(self, api_key, organization, base_url, timeout, max_retries, default_headers, default_query, http_client, _strict_response_validation)
91 api_key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
92 if api_key is None:
---> 93 raise OpenAIError(
94 "The api_key client option must be set either by passing api_key to the client or by setting the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable"
95 )
96 self.api_key = api_key
98 if organization is None:
OpenAIError: The api_key client option must be set either by passing api_key to the client or by setting the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable
Facing confusion and seeking assistance, I attempted adding the line openai.api_key = 'sk-xxxxx' to resolve the issue to no avail, resulting in the same error message persisting.