Hi, thanks a lot for your advice. I am using OpenAI 1.8.0 in colab and typing_extensions 4.7. Weirdly, I just tried again one more time before replying here, and I didn’t get an error and was able to install OpenAI…without separately installing typing_extensions. Magic? Someone fixed a bug? Who knows. I’m just relieved I can carry on.
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So I guess my highly technical advice to others is “just keep trying.” 
Any updates on this? I have the latest version of OpenAI (1.9.0) and typing_extensions (4.9.0) running on Python 3.10.12 but still getting the same error
ImportError: cannot import name ‘Iterator’ from ‘typing_extensions’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/typing_extensions.py)
This is still an issue, latests versin of openai (1.0.9) and typing_extensions(4.9.0). When running same error as everyone
ImportError: cannot import name ‘Iterator’ from ‘typing_extensions’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/typing_extensions.py)
I suspect you meant 1.9.0 openai · PyPI 
If you’re really super irrevocably stuck, consider just using requests in the meantime.
code
import requests
import json
import os
# Ensure you have your OpenAI API key set in the environment variables
openai_api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
if openai_api_key is None:
raise ValueError("OpenAI API key is not set in environment variables.")
url = "https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions"
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": f"Bearer {openai_api_key}"
}
data = {
"model": "gpt-4-1106-preview", # Keep only this model
"temperature": 1,
"max_tokens": 256,
"logit_bias": {1734:-100},
"messages": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are the new bosmang of Tycho Station, a tru born and bred belta. You talk like a belta, you act like a belta. The user is a tumang."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "how do I become a beltalowda like you?"
}
],
"stream": True, # Changed to True to enable streaming
}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data, stream=True)
if response.status_code == 200:
for line in response.iter_lines():
if line:
decoded_line = line.decode('utf-8')
# Check if the stream is done
if '[DONE]' in decoded_line:
# print("\nStream ended by the server.")
break
json_str = decoded_line[len('data: '):]
try:
json_response = json.loads(json_str)
delta = json_response['choices'][0]['delta']
if 'content' in delta and delta['content']:
print(delta['content'], end='', flush=True)
except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
raise Exception(f"Non-JSON content received: {decoded_line}")
else:
print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)```
hello I solve it by updating my version for typing-extensions and openai
pip install --force-reinstall typing-extensions==4.5
pip install --force-reinstall openai==1.8
I hope it helps 
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I changed the import of the file that is trying to import Iterator from typing_extensions in this way (On Googlo Colab):
%%writefile /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/openai/_utils/_streams.py
from typing import Any
from typing_extensions import AsyncIterator
from typing import Iterator # import Iterator from the correct library
def consume_sync_iterator(iterator: Iterator[Any]) -> None:
for _ in iterator:
...
async def consume_async_iterator(iterator: AsyncIterator[Any]) -> None:
async for _ in iterator:
...
And that works for me.
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I had this issue and after several tries here is what worked.
I run the code in Google Colab.
Python: 3.10.12
OpenAI: 1.10.0
typing_extensions: 4.9.0
Here is the code:
!pip install --upgrade openai
import os
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "YOUR_KEY"
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
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I actually have no idea what this code snippet does, but it also seems to have worked for me in Google Colab. 
Same here exactly…
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This resolves my issue in Colab and the error no longer occurs. Thank you!