Cohere Python SDK

This package provides functionality developed to simplify interfacing with the Cohere API in Python 3.

Documentation

Installation

The package can be installed with pip:

pip install --upgrade cohere

Install from source:

python setup.py install

Requirements

Python 3.6+

Quick Start

To use this library, you must have an API key and specify it as a string when creating the cohere.Client object. API keys can be created through the platform. This is a basic example of the creating the client and using the generate endpoint.

import cohere

# initialize the Cohere Client with an API Key
co = cohere.Client('YOUR_API_KEY')

# generate a prediction for a prompt
prediction = co.generate(
            model='large',
            prompt='co:here',
            max_tokens=10)

# print the predicted text
print('prediction: {}'.format(prediction.generations[0].text))

Versioning

To use the SDK with a specific API version, you can specify it when creating the Cohere Client:

import cohere

co = cohere.Client('YOUR_API_KEY', '2022-12-06')

Endpoints

For a full breakdown of endpoints and arguments, please consult the Cohere Docs.

Cohere Endpoint	Function
/generate	co.generate()
/embed	co.embed()
/classify	co.classify()
/tokenize	co.tokenize()
/detokenize	co.detokenize()
/detect-language	co.detect_language()

Models

When you call Cohere's APIs we decide on a good default model for your use-case behind the scenes. The default model is great to get you started, but in production environments we recommend that you specify the model size yourself via the model parameter. Learn more about the available models here(https://os.cohere.ai)

Responses

All of the endpoint functions will return a Cohere object corresponding to the endpoint (e.g. for generation, it would be Generation). The responses can be found as instance variables of the object (e.g. generation would be Generation.text). The names of these instance variables and a detailed breakdown of the response body can be found in the Cohere Docs. Printing the Cohere response object itself will display an organized view of the instance variables.

Exceptions

Unsuccessful API calls from the SDK will raise an exception. Please see the documentation's page on errors for more information about what the errors mean.

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