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    Pythonlangchain-corepromptsloadingload_prompt
    Function●Since v0.1

    load_prompt

    Unified method for loading a prompt from LangChainHub or local filesystem.

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    load_prompt(
        path: str | Path,
        encoding: str | None = None,
    ) -> BasePromptTemplate

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    path*str | Path

    Path to the prompt file.

    encodingstr | None
    Default:None

    Encoding of the file.

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