OpenAI import not working

API
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Hi trying to use the very simpel example on the documentation site

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
  messages=[
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a poetic assistant, skilled in explaining complex programming concepts with creative flair."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Compose a poem that explains the concept of recursion in programming."}
  ]
)

print(completion.choices[0].message)

But everytime i get the same error :ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘openai’.
my set up is a virtualenviroment that is active with a openai version 1.12.0 and python version 3.12.2. why oh why cant my python program find the package.

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Assuming everything is correctly installed, you might look at your paths to ensure python can see where openai is installed.

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Please ensure that your Python virtual environment is activated, and try the command:
pip show openai

If the OpenAI module is installed correctly, you will see a display like this:

Name: openai
Version: 1.12.0
Summary: The official Python library for the openai API
Home-page:
Author:
Author-email: OpenAI support@openai.com
License:
Location: {your path location goes here}
Requires: anyio, distro, httpx, pydantic, sniffio, tqdm, typing-extensions
Required-by:

If you don’t see the display like above, please check whether the virtual environment is active or if the OpenAI module is installed within the virtual environment.

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