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Extracting Output Items and Their Contents

When working with OpenAI's Responses API, different item types contain different information. A response object has been created and stored in the variable response. Your task is to loop through the output items and extract specific information based on their type.

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Working with the OpenAI Responses API

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Exercise instructions

  • Loop through the items in response.output.
  • Check if the item's .type attribute equals 'reasoning', and if so, print 'Found reasoning item'.
  • Check if the item's .type attribute equals 'message', and if so, extract and print the text.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Loop through the output items
for item in ____:
    # Check for reasoning items
    if ____ == 'reasoning':
        print('Found reasoning item')
    
    # Check for message items and extract text
    if item.type == 'message':
        message_text = item.____[0].____
        print(message_text)
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