# Google Colab Fine-Tuning Error:

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**Category:** API\
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/google-colab-fine-tuning-error/5917 "2021-07-14T20:13:27Z")\
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As far as I can tell, exporting a bash variable using `!export VAR` doesn’t work in colab (e.g. try

```auto
!export VAR="hello"
!echo $VAR

```

)

But you can set the env var with

```auto
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = api_key

```

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