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+CHATGPT_API_KEY=
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+.env
+env
+venv
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+# ChatGPT-API-Basics
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [About](#about)
+- [Getting Started](#getting_started)
+
+## About <a name = "about"></a>
+
+This is a basic use case for ChatGPT-API with jupter note book. Happy hacking 💻
+
+## Getting Started <a name = "getting_started"></a>
+
+These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. 
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+What things you need to install the software and how to install them.
+
+Ensure you have python3 installed
+```sh
+python3 --version
+```
+
+
+### Installing
+
+A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running.
+
+Say what the step will be
+
+For unix
+```sh
+python3 -m venv venv
+source venv\Scripts\activate.bat
+```
+
+For windows
+```bash
+python3 -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/active
+```
+
+##### Setting up API key [With enviroment variable]
+You duplicate the .env.example file to .env (renaming the duplicate file to .env) and put your openai key as the CHATGPT_API_KEY value.
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diff --git a/chatGPTAPIbasics.ipynb b/chatGPTAPIbasics.ipynb
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    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "import openai\n",
+    "from decouple import config\n",
     "\n",
     "# load and set our key\n",
-    "openai.api_key = open(\"key.txt\", \"r\").read().strip(\"\\n\")"
+    "openai.api_key = config('CHATGPT_API_KEY')"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/key.txt b/key.txt
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+++ b/key.txt
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-YOURKEYHERE
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+YOURKEYHERE
+
+############
+We made some changes problem solver
+
+move the key to the env file
+1. Duplicate the .env.example file
+2. Rename it to just .env
+3. Paste the key as the CHATGPT_API_KEY value
+4. Delete remove the key above 
+#############
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+openai
+python-decouple
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