Why does setting AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY env variable preclude ever using OPENAI_API_KEY?

[swiecki]

Hi, I want to use my azure deployments for some LLMs and my openAI key for some others. However this isn't possible if I set the environment variable. I got around this by renaming the environment variable to something else and only passing it in manually when I want to use it, but this seems like an odd default?

[codebanesr]

Faced the same issue yesterday +1

[danny-avila]

+1 This was a tricky one for me to debug and glad I'm not the only one

[dosubot]

Hi, @swiecki! I'm Dosu, and I'm here to help the langchainjs team manage their backlog. I wanted to let you know that we are marking this issue as stale.

From what I understand, you were questioning why setting the AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable prevents you from using the OPENAI_API_KEY. You found a workaround by renaming the environment variable, but you believe this default behavior is strange. Another user, codebanesr, faced the same issue, and danny-avila also experienced the problem and is glad they are not the only one.

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