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    Pythonlangchain-corepromptspromptPromptTemplatefrom_file
    Methodā—Since v0.1

    from_file

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      cls,
      template_file: str | Path,
      encoding: str | None = 
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    PromptTemplate

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    template_file*str | Path
    encodingstr | None
    Default:None

    Load a prompt from a file.

    The path to the file containing the prompt template.

    The encoding system for opening the template file.

    If not provided, will use the OS default.