Problem Formulation I encountered a significant delay in the response times on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo API as compared to the ChatGPT — and I’m not alone with this (source). The latency is particularly noticeable when using certain accounts, with the delay making the API almost unusable for real-time applications. Solution Idea: Experiment with Difference User … Read more
Python comes with extensive support for exceptions and exception handling. An exception event interrupts and, if uncaught, immediately terminates a running program. The most popular examples are the IndexError, ValueError, and TypeError. An exception will immediately terminate your program. To avoid this, you can catch the exception with a try/except block around the code where … Read more
Problem Formulation In the following example, you use a newline character ‘\n’ inside the curly braces of an f-string: But if you run this code, Python raises a SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash. ⚡ The reason is that there is a limitation in versions of Python before 3.12 where backslashes are not … Read more
Problem Formulation If you try to install Python packages using pip, particularly the package “unroll”, you may encounter an error that halts the installation process. The error message displayed is: 🧑💻 Recap: Python setup.py – What’s This? Most Likely Solution: Upgrade Setuptools and Pip Ensuring that setuptools and pip are updated is crucial as outdated … Read more
Key Points: The following video shows how I fixed a similar error on a list instead of a tuple: If you’re like me, you try things first in your code and fix the bugs as they come. One frequent bug in Python is the IndexError: tuple index out of range. So, what does this error … Read more
Problem Formulation 🧩 Picture this: you’re chugging along, writing some great Python code, leveraging the sheer power of dataclasses, and BAM! You hit an error you’ve never seen before: “TypeError: ‘ABCMeta’ object is not subscriptable“. 😵💫 Here’s the culprit, a scenario where you have a base dataclass Expression, inherited from the Node class and Python’s … Read more
When trying to plot a 3D normal distribution recently, I encountered the following error: TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-10-ee1b0cd4b744> in <cell line: 32>() 30 fig = plt.figure() 31 —> 32 ax = fig.gca(projection=’3d’) 33 34 # create a 3D surface plot of the multivariate normal distribution 👉 TypeError: FigureBase.gca() got an unexpected keyword … Read more
Problem Formulation The output when running this code is as follows Warning (from warnings module): File “C:\Users\xcent\Desktop\code.py”, line 10 ax = fig.gca(projection=’3d’) MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: Calling gca() with keyword arguments was deprecated in Matplotlib 3.4. Starting two minor releases later, gca() will take no keyword arguments. The gca() function should only be used to get the current … Read more
When filtering or performing conditional operations on pandas dataframes, a common error that developers encounter is “The truth value of a Series is ambiguous”. The error arises due to the use of improper syntax while filtering or comparing values in a pandas DataFrame or Series object. Instead of using logical operators like and and or, … Read more
When working with OpenAI models, it’s not uncommon for you to encounter errors, such as the openai.error.InvalidRequestError. This error can be particularly frustrating when attempting to access a specific model like GPT-4. When you encounter the openai.error.InvalidRequestError with the message “The model: gpt-4 does not exist”, it means that your code is attempting to access … Read more
OpenAI’s openai.error.InvalidRequestError “Engine not found” typically occurs when there is an issue with the specified engine or some other required parameter, leading to an unsuccessful interaction with the OpenAI platform. 💡 A common cause is an incorrect engine name or a missing colon in the engine parameter. Troubleshooting steps involve carefully reading the error message, … Read more
Among the most common OpenAI issues users face are loading errors, format and style issues, and rate limit errors. Top 10 Errors OpenAI’s API can be immensely useful, but it’s not immune to some common errors. Here is a list of the top 10 errors fixed, allowing users to overcome these issues and enjoy smoother … Read more