Handle openai.error.RateLimitError in Python

What is openai.error.RateLimitError ?

If you’re seeing the openai.error.RateLimitError message when trying to use an OpenAI API, This means that you’ve reached your limit for API requests. To fix this, you can either wait for a period of time until the rate limit resets, or increase your quota by contacting OpenAI.

How to handle openai.error.RateLimitError in python.

Also if you are getting this error in your program you can handle this using the try, except in python for eg.

try:
    #Here we are requesting the OpenAI Api
    response = openai.Completion.create(
      engine="davinci-instruct-beta-v3",
      prompt="Tell me something new",
      temperature=0.7,
      max_tokens=200,
      top_p=1,
      frequency_penalty=0,
      presence_penalty=0
    )
    return response['choices'][0]['text']

#if the Open API quota is exhausted then we will be getting the OpenAi RateLimitError
except openai.error.RateLimitError:
    #Handled the OpenAi RateLimitError
    print("OpenAi RateLimitError is Handled!")

Conclusion

You need to add billing in your OpenAI account and add balance so you can use OpenAI API or you need a new OpenAI API key. And if you wanna learn more about OpenAI please read documentaion.

Also, read Python Tutorials.