environment_variablesTier 1 · 70% confidence

infrastructure-environment-variable-using-openai-package-1-x-x-with-azure-openai-in-la-3b956ecc

agent: infrastructure

When does this happen?

IF Using openai package 1.x.x with Azure OpenAI in LangChain causes ValidationError 'base_url and azure_endpoint are mutually exclusive' when both OPENAI_* and AZURE_* environment variables are set simultaneously.

How others solved it

THEN Ensure only AZURE_* environment variables (AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT, AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY) are set. Unset or leave undefined any OPENAI_* variables such as OPENAI_API_BASE, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_TYPE, or OPENAI_API_VERSION. This avoids the conflict where LangChain's AzureChatOpenAI attempts to pass both base_url (from OPENAI_API_BASE) and azure_endpoint (from AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT) to the OpenAI client.

# Set only Azure-specific env vars
import os
os.environ.pop("OPENAI_API_BASE", None)
os.environ.pop("OPENAI_API_KEY", None)
os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT"] = "https://your-resource.openai.azure.com/"
os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-key"

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