openai/openai-python
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The official Python library for the OpenAI API
What openai-python is
The OpenAI Python library provides convenient access to the OpenAI REST API from any Python 3.10+ application. The library includes type definitions for all request params and response fields, and offers both synchronous and asynchronous clients powered by HTTPX2.
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04 Sep 2026 — Why Every Python Dev Uses This OpenAI Library
Guessing request shapes and response fields by hand slows every integration. openai-python fixes that, generated from OpenAI's own OpenAPI specification with complete type definitions. It serves the Responses API and Chat Completions with synchronous and asynchronous clients, plus workload identity authentication for Kubernetes, Azure, and Google Cloud. It requires Python 3.10 or newer, and then you're generating text from OpenAI models.
12 Jul 2026 — This Free Python Library Replaces $150/mo Cloud OCR — EasyOCR #Shorts
OpenAI's official Python library is generated from the OpenAPI specification, so every response field ships typed. You get synchronous and asynchronous clients, a Responses API, and chat completions from a single pip install openai. Chat completions still work too, but it's the previous standard, supported indefinitely. Kubernetes clusters can now authenticate with short-lived cloud tokens instead of long-lived API keys.