Source code for langchain.prompts.few_shot
"""Prompt template that contains few shot examples."""
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
from pydantic import Extra, root_validator
from langchain.prompts.base import (
    DEFAULT_FORMATTER_MAPPING,
    StringPromptTemplate,
    check_valid_template,
)
from langchain.prompts.example_selector.base import BaseExampleSelector
from langchain.prompts.prompt import PromptTemplate
[docs]class FewShotPromptTemplate(StringPromptTemplate):
    """Prompt template that contains few shot examples."""
    examples: Optional[List[dict]] = None
    """Examples to format into the prompt.
    Either this or example_selector should be provided."""
    example_selector: Optional[BaseExampleSelector] = None
    """ExampleSelector to choose the examples to format into the prompt.
    Either this or examples should be provided."""
    example_prompt: PromptTemplate
    """PromptTemplate used to format an individual example."""
    suffix: str
    """A prompt template string to put after the examples."""
    input_variables: List[str]
    """A list of the names of the variables the prompt template expects."""
    example_separator: str = "\n\n"
    """String separator used to join the prefix, the examples, and suffix."""
    prefix: str = ""
    """A prompt template string to put before the examples."""
    template_format: str = "f-string"
    """The format of the prompt template. Options are: 'f-string', 'jinja2'."""
    validate_template: bool = True
    """Whether or not to try validating the template."""
    @root_validator(pre=True)
    def check_examples_and_selector(cls, values: Dict) -> Dict:
        """Check that one and only one of examples/example_selector are provided."""
"""Check that one and only one of examples/example_selector are provided."""
        examples = values.get("examples", None)
        example_selector = values.get("example_selector", None)
        if examples and example_selector:
            raise ValueError(
                "Only one of 'examples' and 'example_selector' should be provided"
            )
        if examples is None and example_selector is None:
            raise ValueError(
                "One of 'examples' and 'example_selector' should be provided"
            )
        return values
    @root_validator()
    def template_is_valid(cls, values: Dict) -> Dict:
        """Check that prefix, suffix and input variables are consistent."""
        if values["validate_template"]:
            check_valid_template(
                values["prefix"] + values["suffix"],
                values["template_format"],
                values["input_variables"] + list(values["partial_variables"]),
            )
        return values
    class Config:
        """Configuration for this pydantic object."""
        extra = Extra.forbid
        arbitrary_types_allowed = True
    def _get_examples(self, **kwargs: Any) -> List[dict]:
        if self.examples is not None:
            return self.examples
        elif self.example_selector is not None:
            return self.example_selector.select_examples(kwargs)
        else:
            raise ValueError
[docs]    def format(self, **kwargs: Any) -> str:
        """Format the prompt with the inputs.
        Args:
            kwargs: Any arguments to be passed to the prompt template.
        Returns:
            A formatted string.
        Example:
        .. code-block:: python
            prompt.format(variable1="foo")
        """
        kwargs = self._merge_partial_and_user_variables(**kwargs)
        # Get the examples to use.
# Get the examples to use.
        examples = self._get_examples(**kwargs)
        examples = [
            {k: e[k] for k in self.example_prompt.input_variables} for e in examples
        ]
        # Format the examples.
        example_strings = [
            self.example_prompt.format(**example) for example in examples
        ]
        # Create the overall template.
        pieces = [self.prefix, *example_strings, self.suffix]
        template = self.example_separator.join([piece for piece in pieces if piece])
        # Format the template with the input variables.
        return DEFAULT_FORMATTER_MAPPING[self.template_format](template, **kwargs)
    @property
    def _prompt_type(self) -> str:
        """Return the prompt type key."""
        return "few_shot"
[docs]    def dict(self, **kwargs: Any) -> Dict:
        """Return a dictionary of the prompt."""
        if self.example_selector:
            raise ValueError("Saving an example selector is not currently supported")
        return super().dict(**kwargs)
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