Subject: Error: 'OpenAI' Object Has No Attribute 'batches'

API Bugs
1

When Creating Batch Jobs I’m encountering an error while attempting to create batch jobs using the OpenAI API. The code snippet below produces an AttributeError:

batch_input_file_id = batch_input_file.id

client.batches.create(
input_file_id=batch_input_file_id,
endpoint=“/v1/chat/completions”,
completion_window=“24h”,
metadata={
“description”: “nightly eval job”
}
)

The error message states: AttributeError: 'OpenAI' object has no attribute 'batches' .

What is the recommended approach for creating batch jobs in the current version of the OpenAI API?

2

The openai SDK module validates input. Not allowing you to send what it doesn’t know.

So you need to install a quite new version of software to try a feature released two weeks ago.

Or instead make your requests yourself with a https package so that using AI models isn’t a co-mingled locked-in mess.

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4

Try %pip install --upgrade openai --quiet to install the new SDK

6

I tried this but still have the same issue. For some reason I only face it with client.batches.list(limit=10) and not with client.batches.create…

7

I’ve faced the same error. I just realised, that I forgot to update the openai lib inside the virtual env, where my jupyter notebook works. I hope it’ll help someone. To check current lib’s version use openai.__version__