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    Pythonlangchain-corepromptsmessageBaseMessagePromptTemplate
    Class●Since v0.3

    BaseMessagePromptTemplate

    Base class for message prompt templates.

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    BaseMessagePromptTemplate(
      self,
      *args: Any = (),
      **kwargs: Any = {}
    )

    Bases

    SerializableABC

    Used in Docs

    • MESSAGE_COERCION_FAILURE

    Attributes

    attribute
    input_variables: list[str]

    Input variables for this prompt template.

    Methods

    method
    is_lc_serializable

    Return True as this class is serializable.

    method
    get_lc_namespace

    Get the namespace of the LangChain object.

    method
    format_messages

    Format messages from kwargs.

    Should return a list of BaseMessage objects.

    method
    aformat_messages

    Async format messages from kwargs.

    method
    pretty_repr

    Human-readable representation.

    method
    pretty_print

    Print a human-readable representation.

    Inherited fromSerializable

    Attributes

    Alc_secrets: dict[str, str]
    —

    A map of constructor argument names to secret ids.

    Alc_attributes: dict
    —

    List of attribute names that should be included in the serialized kwargs.

    Amodel_config

    Methods

    Mlc_id
    —

    Return a unique identifier for this class for serialization purposes.

    Mto_json
    —

    Serialize the object to JSON.

    Mto_json_not_implemented
    —

    Serialize a "not implemented" object.

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