Apologies up front if this is a more general programming question. I’m using the API with Python, and here is an example of one of my user message prompts with somewhat standard Python indentation (1 tab indent per line, looks like more here): completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create( …

With a docstring, all spaces that are placed between the triple-quotes are included, every bit of indentation you show is passed. You can use the .strip() method on the string to simply and only remove whitespace before and after. This allows you to maintain a clear presentation where all the text …

How do I get rid of blank space characters in prompts?

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lostinsauce October 20, 2023, 11:54pm 5

Ahh that’s much cleaner, thanks @_j, I appreciate it!

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How do I get rid of blank space characters in prompts?

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