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Pythonlangchain-corepromptsloadingload_prompt

Function●Since v0.1Deprecated

load_prompt

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load_prompt(
  path: str | Path,
  encoding: str | None = None,

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*

,

allow_dangerous_paths

:

=

False

)

->

BasePromptTemplate

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`path`*	`str \| Path`	Path to the prompt file.
`encoding`	`str \| None`	Default:`None` Encoding of the file.
`allow_dangerous_paths`	`bool`	Default:`False`

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

If False (default), file paths referenced inside the loaded config (such as template_path, examples, and example_prompt_path) are validated to reject absolute paths and directory traversal (..) sequences. Set to True only if you trust the source of the config.