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 a simple, fast, 100 line package to call OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Anthropic API Endpoints 
 
 # usage
-```
+```python
 messages = [{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]
 # openai call
 response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=messages)