# Chat completion: response\['choices'\] throwing error in python (VSCode)

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/chat-completion-response-choices-throwing-error-in-python-vscode/204835>\
**Category:** API\
**Tags:** chatgpt\
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-completion-response-choices-throwing-error-in-python-vscode/204835 "2023-05-12T11:14:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/chat-completion-response-choices-throwing-error-in-python-vscode/204835/1 "2023-05-12T11:14:57Z")

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After reading around and following some steps, I also even used chatgpt with prompts to help me build my own chatgpt agent python file to be used for a small project I am working on. and I continue to get a error grammer or syntax in visual studio, the error is with response[‘choices’].

but in the document: [Chat completion - OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction), right after response format, I am seeing the line (response[‘choices’][0][‘message’][‘content’]

so I am not sure where I am making a mistake and how I can resolve it. I am still new with coding in general and I wanted to use chatgpt to help me practice and build my knowledge and understanding of coding while developing my prompt skills