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removed upstream in httpx 0.28.0.\n\nFix status: released_fix (fixed in openai 1.55.3; anthropic 0.40.0 (both 2024-11-28))\n\nMisleading approaches:\n- Removing proxy env vars: the argument is passed by the SDK regardless.\n\nLimitations:\n- openai-python 3.x and anthropic 1.x moved to httpx2; custom http_client objects must be httpx2-based.\n\nOther error fragments:\n- AsyncClient.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/1903 (github_issue, 2024-11-28, reported_symptom): Verbatim TypeError on openai 1.55.2 with httpx 0.28; wrapper passed proxies; langchain ChatOpenAI implicated.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/openai-python/main/CHANGELOG.md (changelog, 2024-11-28, released_fix): openai 1.55.3: \"client: compat with new httpx 0.28.0 release (#1904)\".\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/main/CHANGELOG.md (changelog, 2024-11-28, released_fix): anthropic 0.40.0: \"client: compat with new httpx 0.28.0 release (#765)\".\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/encode/httpx/master/CHANGELOG.md (changelog, unknown, documented_behavior): httpx 0.28 notes: \"The deprecated proxies argument has now been removed.\"\n\nSearch phrasings: Client.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'proxies'; 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