Problems getting summary from Openai in Python

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System: Python 3.11 on windows 11. I’m very new to Python AI.

Purpose: I’m grabbing several web pages then asking a question about them like “Summarize these web pages.”

Here’s the code snippet I’m having trouble with.

        # Generate summary of content which is a web page.
        subname = 'client.chat.completion.create()'
        try: 
#        response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
            client = AsyncOpenAI(api_key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"))
            response = client.chat.completions.create(
                # api_key = options.apikey,
                model=options.llmname, # This is the model name to use.
                messages=[
                    # {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
                    {"role": "user", "content": f"Please summarize the following content:\n\n{content}"}
                ],
                max_tokens=300  # Adjust summary length
            )
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"{procname} ERROR in {subname}. {e}")
            sys.exit(1)
        
        # summary = response.choices[0].message['content'].strip() # Deprecated
        # summary = response['choices'][0]['message']['content'].strip() # Wrong
        summary = response['choices'][0].message['content'].strip() # Problem here.
        return summary

The problem is the last line which says summary = response['choices'][0].message['content'].strip(). I’ve tried AI several times and it keeps giving me wrong answers. I’m new to AI in Python so there may be details I may not understand.

I’ve tried several things with the response object with no luck. Here’s the current errors I get in the debugger.

-> summary = response['choices'][0]['message']['content'].strip()
(Pdb) p response['choices']
*** TypeError: 'coroutine' object is not subscriptable
(Pdb) p response.choices
*** AttributeError: 'coroutine' object has no attribute 'choices'

Any idea how to get the summary? The summary should be plain text.

Thank you!

2

The error tells you that response is a coroutine and you are treating it as a dict.
As this is an Async API you are using you need to await the response I assume.
But I’m not familar with async to be sure of exactly what you need to do.

3

I’m not familiar with await either.

4

There’s an example here:

Text generation - OpenAI API

Try inserting await like this:

response = await client.chat.completions.create(