OpenAI Python Library

The OpenAI Python library provides convenient access to the OpenAI API from applications written in the Python language. It includes a pre-defined set of classes for API resources that initialize themselves dynamically from API responses which makes it compatible with a wide range of versions of the OpenAI API.

Documentation

See the OpenAI API docs.

Installation

You don't need this source code unless you want to modify the package. If you just want to use the package, just run:

pip install --upgrade openai

Install from source with:

python setup.py install

Usage

The library needs to be configured with your account's secret key which is available on the website. Either set it as the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable before using the library:

export OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-...'

Or set openai.api_key to its value:

import openai
openai.api_key = "sk-..."

# list engines
engines = openai.Engine.list()

# print the first engine's id
print(engines.data[0].id)

# create a completion
completion = openai.Completion.create(engine="ada", prompt="Hello world")

# print the completion
print(completion.choices[0].text)

Command-line interface

This library additionally provides an openai command-line utility which makes it easy to interact with the API from your terminal. Run openai api -h for usage.

# list engines
openai api engines.list

# create a completion
openai api completions.create -e ada -p "Hello world"

Requirements

• Python 3.7+

In general we want to support the versions of Python that our customers are using, so if you run into issues with any version issues, please let us know at support@openai.com.

Credit

This library is forked from the Stripe Python Library.