Issue using Colab in running a code

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I’m running code in Colab for the short course “Reasoning with o1.” I’ve placed the .ipynb file and the helper.py file together in the same folder. However, when I executed the first cell in the .ipynb file, I encountered an error indicating that Colab couldn’t locate the helper.py file. How can I resolve this issue?

ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 6>()
4
5 # Import OpenAI key
----> 6 from helper import get_openai_api_key
7 openai_api_key = get_openai_api_key()

ImportError: cannot import name ‘get_openai_api_key’ from ‘helper’ (unknown location)

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are you using your own api keys??

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Also note that just because you placed the two files in the same folder does not mean that folder is the “current working directory” of the notebook as it is executing. You can find that out by inserting a new code cell early in the notebook and using a “bang escape” to execute the relevant linux shell command:

!pwd

That will show you the current working directory. If it’s not where you think it is, then you’ll need to do

!cd xxxxxx

where xxxxxx is the relevant place.

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No, I am assuming that the code is using the one provided by the course.

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codes don’t work that way. every lesson or short course provides you a requirement.txt file which mentions what all module or package version will be required for a code to run locally. with that one also needs to understand course use dlai.api keys which will not work even if you download the helper_function.py files, you need to get your own api keys from openai, then you need to make changes in the helper function.py files and in the code where it uses dlai api keys to make changes
(this information is usually provided in the lesson assignment in the short course). After this if there dependency discrepancy, you need to work upon yourself as we can mimic your system environment as a third party.

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Thanks for the information.

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Thanks.

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see the below thread, it has similar issue but api key is from azure but explains how one needs to make changes to the codes in the lesson assignment to be able to use your own api key