Non caught exception `NetworkError` is raised by `httpx`

[clemlesne]

Confirm this is an issue with the Python library and not an underlying OpenAI API

• This is an issue with the Python library

Describe the bug

In some circumstances of faulty network (like on developer laptop, poor VPN, …), httpx raises a NetworkError (ConnectError, ReadError, WriteError, CloseError) exception. This error is related to the network management of the library, but the library do not catch it.

It would be easier to catch NetworkError and to map it to a APIError.

See HTTPX doc for exception handling.

To Reproduce

1. Run any command involving the remote endpoint
2. Close / interrupt the network connection a few seconds
3. See the error

Code snippets

No response

OS

macOS 14.3.1

Python version

Python v3.12.1

Library version

openai v1.14.0

[clemlesne]

I'll pause this issue for now, I detected the issue a few weeks ago, and looking at the code, it seems that it was fixed by: ba4f7a9.

[rattrayalex]

Thank you @clemlesne !