Simon Willison’s Weblog

10th July 2023

TIL Using OpenAI functions and their Python library for data extraction — Here's the pattern I figured out for using the [openai](https://github.com/openai/openai-python) Python library to extract structured data from text using a single call to the model.

Posted 10th July 2023 at 12:06 am

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