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Environment Setup

Set up your development environment for building LLM applications.

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Python Environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade pip

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Environment Variables

Create a .env file in your project root: 
# OpenAI
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

# Anthropic
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# Google
GOOGLE_API_KEY=AIza...

# Search APIs
SERPAPI_KEY=...
TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-...

# Vector Databases
QDRANT_URL=http://localhost:6333
QDRANT_API_KEY=...
Never commit .env files to version control. Add .env to your .gitignore.

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Load Environment Variables

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os

load_dotenv()

openai_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")

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Docker Setup

For services like vector databases: 
# Qdrant
docker run -p 6333:6333 qdrant/qdrant

# ChromaDB
docker run -p 8000:8000 chromadb/chroma

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