AssertionError: openai package is not installed or the API key is not set

[mhaugestad]

I am running into an error: AssertionError: openai package is not installed or the API key is not set.

I am certain that both the openai package is installed and I have the API set as environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY.

openai version 1.11.1
chatarena version 0.1.18

When I run the following code in the same environment 'is_openai_available' resolves to True.

try:
import openai
except ImportError:
is_openai_available = False
# logging.warning("openai package is not installed")
else:
try:
client = openai.OpenAI(api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"))
is_openai_available = True
except openai.OpenAIError:
# logging.warning("OpenAI API key is not set. Please set the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY")
is_openai_available = False

Any ideas what could be causing this?

[elliottower]

Not sure what would cause this exactly but sounds like a bug. I don’t have much time to check on this but if you figure out the specific part in the codebase the problem is I can take a look, and maybe some more details to reproduce the problem

[DenzelGeng]

Got similar problems when try to set up the api. Besides the openai.py you put in, you also need to import OpenAI from chatarena.backend before hand.