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I’m trying to train using Google Colab. Despite establishing the API, I am struck with the following error: " Error: No API key provided. (HINT: set your API key in code using "openai.api_key = <API-KEY>", or you can set the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY=<API-KEY>). You can generate API keys in the OpenAI web interface. See [https://onboard.openai.com](https://onboard.openai.com/) for details, or email [support@openai.com](mailto:support@openai.com) if you have any questions."

My code is as follows:

!pip install --upgrade openai
import openai
!export OPENAI_API_KEY="(actual API)"
!openai api fine_tunes.create -t "/content/Untitled spreadsheet (2)_prepared.jsonl" -m "ada"

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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

!export VAR="hello"
!echo $VAR

)

But you can set the env var with

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = api_key
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Thank you. That works!

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This saved me, thank you.

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I am getting following error on Google cola
/bin/bash: os.environ[OPENAI_API_KEY]: command not found