A simple ChatGPT API response

Using the ChatGPT API with Python is a relatively simple process. You’ll first need to make sure you have created the directory called CHATGPTRESPONSE described in the previous section (see Figure 1.8). Once you have that set up, you can use the OpenAI Python library to interact with the ChatGPT API. Open a new terminal in VSCode, make sure that you are in your project folder and virtual environment, and install the openai package:

$ pip install openai

To get started, you’ll need to import the openai library into your app.py file. Also, you’ll need to provide your OpenAI API key. You can obtain an API key from the OpenAI website by following the steps outlined in the previous sections of this book. Then you’ll need to set it as a parameter in your Python code. Once your API key is set up, you can start interacting with the ChatGPT API:

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

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