Is "request_timeout" parameter real?

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Hi,

So looking around the forum, I found this comment

phuib

Mar 28

Setting request_timeout worked for me.
e.g.

openai.Completion.create(request_timeout=1)

I was able to get this exception message.

Request timed out: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘api.openai.com ’, port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=1)

I can’t find reference to it in the OpenAI docs, but it is mentioned in the git repo, I think the folks that are managing it themselves are doing so by .create(ing) the object and then if a reply is not received within a specific period they are calling the .close method and generating their own exceptions.

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