diff --git a/litellm/proxy/tests/test_proxy_exception_mapping.py b/litellm/proxy/tests/test_proxy_exception_mapping.py
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+import openai
+client = openai.OpenAI(
+    api_key="anything",
+    # base_url="http://0.0.0.0:8000",
+)
+
+try:
+    # request sent to model set on litellm proxy, `litellm --model`
+    response = client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages = [
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": "this is a test request, write a short poem"
+        },
+    ])
+
+    print(response)
+# except openai.APITimeoutError:
+#     print("Got openai Timeout Exception. Good job. The proxy mapped to OpenAI exceptions")
+except Exception as e:
+    print("\n the proxy did not map to OpenAI exception. Instead got", e)
+    print(e.type)
+    print(e.message)
+    print(e.code)
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