An error occurred: module 'openai' has no attribute 'ChatCompletion'

Question

I'm trying to build a discord bot that uses the GPT-4 API to function as a chatbot on discord. I have the most recent version of the OpenAI library but when I run my code it tells me "An error occurred: module 'openai' has no attribute 'ChatCompletion'"

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the OpenAI library, I tried using the completions endpoint and got the error "This is a chat model and not supported in the v1/completions endpoint. Did you mean to use v1/chat/completions?"

This is the snippet of code that's giving me issues:

async def get_gpt_response(prompt, history):
    history_strings = [f"{message['role']}: {message['content']}" for message in history] # update history format
    chat_prompt = '\n'.join(history_strings + [f"user: {prompt}"])
    
    completions = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
        engine=config["model"],
        prompt=chat_prompt,
        max_tokens=config["max_tokens"],
        n=1,
        temperature=config["temperature"],
    )
    return completions.choices[0].text.strip().split('assistant:', 1)[-1].strip()

Letdown

Yes in the code snippet I provided you can see it is using the ChatCompletions endpoint rather than the Completions endpoint – Letdown

First of all, did you get access to the GPT-4 API? Second of all, your code looks like you want to use the GPT-3 API. Which OpenAI model do you want to use? This question needs more focus. – Valerie

Does this answer your question? module has no attribute – Veliz

openai has changed the API, at least that's was the problem for me github.com/openai/openai-python – Dyna

Answer 1

Make sure you don’t have a file called “openai.py”

Babiche

Such a simple and yet natural mistake :D – Erstwhile

Answer 2

I experienced exactly the same error, even after just installation the OpenAi library. I ran the script below:

pip install --upgrade openai

Which gave me that latest version with ChatCompletion as a method.

Angevin

This was the case for me, had to upgrade using: pip install -U openai. Thanks. – Blockade

Answer 3

https://pypi.org/project/openai/

like this:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    # defaults to os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
    api_key="My API Key",
)

chat_completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Say this is a test",
        }
    ],
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
)

Moriah

Answer 4

Yes i have the file nameed openai.py after changes the name it runs

Polyhydroxy

I think the answer to remove the file (i.e. by renaming it) already exists here, no need to repeat it – Fishback

Answer 5

So I also faced the same issue and this is because of the latest version of the openai library is not on your system , could be because when you install from requirements.txt or maybe something else but here's how I solved it :

You have to just uninstall the current openai library, and install the latest openai library version.

pip uninstall openai

pip install openai

Silsby

Answer 6

Still I got the error after running upgrade command .The current version of open ai NOV 2023 is 1.1.1 ,I fixed it by specifying version of 0.28.0 or 0.28.1.

Multiplex

Answer 7

I think in latest verison of OpenAI chat completions is not available. May be some other method is there. If you want your code to work as it, then simply uninstall current OpenAI and install older version by following command. It worked for me.

pip uninstall openai
pip install -Iv  openai==0.27.8

Fredericafrederich

Answer 8

Make sure you have the latest OpenAI library. I have the same issue and resolved it by upgrade openai 26.5 to 27.2 version.

Rackrent

Answer 9

The end-point strictly depends on the engine used for completion. So which engine did you used? I can't try GPT4 cause it's not already open to everyone but i suppose API are similar to GPT3.5 For example if you use

openai.Completion.create

you have to use a text-completion engine like text-davinci-003

If you use

openai.ChatCompletion.create

you have to use a chat engine like gpt-3.5-turbo

here a little snippet of code where self.COMPLETIONS_MODEL = "gpt-3.5-turbo"

  COMPLETIONS_API_PARAMS = {
      # We use temperature of 0.0 because it gives the most predictable, factual answer.
      "temperature": 0.0,
      "max_tokens": 256,
      "model": self.COMPLETIONS_MODEL,
  }    
  prompt = self.construct_prompt(
      query,
      document_embeddings,
      df
  )
  
  messages = [
      {"role":"system","content":"Rispondi a domande sull'utilizzo del servizio WebAPI di Passepartout"},
      {"role":"user","content":prompt}
    ]
  response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
              messages=messages,
              **COMPLETIONS_API_PARAMS
          )  

Naker

Answer 10

Be sure your python version is 3.8 or 3.9. I used 3.6 and had the same issue, it was not until I upgraded that it worked correctly

Bouldon

If you have a new question, please ask it by clicking the Ask Question button. Include a link to this question if it helps provide context. - From Review – Nonsense

Answer 11

pip install --upgrade openai --user

This worked for me.

Vulgarian

Answer 12

pip install --upgrade httpcore

This worked for me

Embody

do you know why? – Require

Answer 13

I encountered the same issue as you and resolved it in the following way:

Firstly, I uninstalled the packages:

pip uninstall langchain langchain-openai langchain-community langchain_experimental 

Then, I installed:

pip install langchain langchain_openai 

Now, my versions are as follows: langchain: 0.1.12 langchain-openai: 0.0.8 Please note the difference between ”langchain-openai“ and ”langchain_openai“.

Ted