openai lib preventing reading of headers for an http exception

[gtmtech]

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

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/src/openai/_base_client.py#L980 - raises exceptions if there's an HTTPStatusError, such as a 429, 500 etc.

Which is semi-useful, but as-implemented, it does mean the headers are unavailable for that request.

Headers contain extremely valuable information sometimes, even when there are exceptions, and the library should ideally still return the headers along with the exception somehow, so that on receiving an exception it's possible to still read the headers.

To Reproduce

try:
    stream = sync_client.chat.completions.create(.... stream=True)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)
    print(vars(e))
    print(stream)
    raise e

stream is None, e is an exception with a bubbled up error message from the api, headers not available

Code snippets

see above for code snippets.

OS

macOS

Python version

Python 3.10.12

Library version

openai 1.3.7 and above

[rattrayalex]

sorry about this; you can read the headers with print(e.response.headers). We'll work on making that happen more nicely out of the box.