Digging into the response
One key skill in working with APIs is extracting the right data from a structured response. Now, you'll practice retrieving the necessary text from an OpenAI API response.
The OpenAI class has already been imported for you from the openai library.
This exercise is part of the course
Working with DeepSeek in Python
Exercise instructions
- Extract the
contentfrom the response, which is nested inside themessageattribute.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
client = OpenAI(api_key="", base_url="https://api.together.xyz/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Quick, one-sentence productivity tip."}]
)
# Extract the content from the response
print(response.choices[0].____.____)