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How to Truncate Text to a Token Budget in Python

Truncate a string to a maximum token budget for LLM context using the tiktoken library and OpenAI's tokenizer.

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import tiktoken

def truncate_to_token_budget(text, max_tokens, model="gpt-3.5-turbo"):
    enc = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(model)
    tokens = enc.encode(text)
    if len(tokens) <= max_tokens:
        return text
    truncated_tokens = tokens[:max_tokens]
    return enc.decode(truncated_tokens)

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