Can low level client be used without Azure

[dlflannery]

I’ve used python connecting directly to OpenAI endpoints but have not used Azure. I would like to use. the lowlevel client but see it’s importing azure packages, although the code seems to handle non-azure cases for authentication. Can I use it as-is to connect directly to the OpenAI. endpoints? Does the “token” credential just become the openai_api_key in that case?

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(just want to use it as described above)

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Windows 11 Pro, Visual Studio 2022 Python Project

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Python 3.11

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[glecaros]

Hi @dlflannery, thanks for reaching out. Yes, the clients can be used for both Azure OpenAI and OpenAI. We will add more documentation to make it explicit, although the samples show how to do it. As for the token credential question, OpenAI actually would use the key credential (same as azure when an api key is provided)