[rattray]

Hey minimaxir, I help maintain the official OpenAI Python package. Mind sharing what issues you've had with it? (Have you used it since November, when the 1.0 was released?)

Keen for your feedback, either here or email: [e-mail]

[minimaxir]

There's nothing wrong per se, it works as advertised. But as a result it's a somewhat redundant dependency.

[rattray]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks, that makes sense. FWIW, here are some things it provides which might be worth having:

1. typesafety (for those using pyright/mypy) and autocomplete/intellisense

2. auto-retry (w/ backoff, intelligently so w/ rate limits) and error handling

3. auto-pagination (can save a lot of code if you make list calls)

4. SSE parsing for streaming

5. (coming soon) richer streaming & function-calling helpers (can save / clean up a lot of code)

Not all of these matter to everybody (e.g., I imagine you're not moved by such benefits as "dot notation over dictionary access", which some devs might really like).

I would argue that auto-retry would benefit a pretty large percentage of users, though, especially since the 429 handling can paper over a lot of rate limits to the point that you never actually "feel" them. And spurious/temporary network connections or 500s also ~disappear.

For some simple use-cases, none of these would really matter, and I agree with you - especially if it's not production code and you don't use a type-aware editor.