openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 ..... does not match '^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64}$

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I get this error randomly → I applied regex to name → this fix has solved the problem to certain extent but not completely. This error just randomly appear even though the name is in right format.

Can anyone suggest - a permanent fix?

Here is a sample error message
openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {‘error’: {‘message’: “‘Emily Brown’ does not match ‘[1]{1,64}$’ - ‘messages.2.name’”, ‘type’: ‘invalid_request_error’, ‘param’: None, ‘code’: None}}

Regards,

  1. a-zA-Z0-9_- ↩︎

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You’ll need to simply strip spaces and other whitespace within a “name” if using this alongside “role”, or truncate at the first whitespace.

Or not allow user data as name parameter.

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Here’s how you can implement this in Python using the re module, using multiple steps of reprocessing (in the correct order, not ChatGPT’s mistakes).

import re

def process_name(name_field: str) -> str:
    # Step 1: Strip any whitespace characters from the beginning and end of the string
    name_field = name_field.strip()

    # Step 2: Replace white spaces within the string with underscores
    name_field = re.sub(r"\s+", "_", name_field)

    # Step 3: Remove any characters that do not match the [a-zA-Z0-9_-] pattern
    name_field = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]", "", name_field)

    # Step 4: Truncate to 63 characters
    name_field = name_field[:63]

    # Step 5: Validate against the regex pattern
    if not re.match(r"^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,63}$", name_field):
        raise ValueError("Invalid characters in name field")

    return name_field

# Example usage
name_field = "  Emily Brown!  "
processed_name = process_name(name_field)
print(processed_name)  # Expected Output: Emily_Brown
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What I observed and it worked for me is that in the name field if I remove the space and use any other character (in my case underscore) it worked fine. In your case try “Emily_Brown” or simply use same name as the agent variable name (though this is not a requirement) e.g. I used
player_white = ConversableAgent(
name=“player_white”,

After making this change it worked fine.
Regards
Junaid