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August 28, 2026
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Summary
The OpenAI Python SDK now uses HTTPX2 for its synchronous and asynchronous HTTP clients. HTTPX2 is installed automatically with openai ; the previous httpx package is not. This guide explains what changes for applications that interact with the SDK's HTTP layer. If you construct an OpenAI or AsyncOpenAI client without providing http_client , your existing API calls, parsed response models, streami...