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+import tiktoken
+from typing import List, Dict
+
+def count_message_tokens(messages : List[Dict[str, str]], model : str = "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301") -> int:
+    """
+    Returns the number of tokens used by a list of messages.
+
+    Args:
+    messages (list): A list of messages, each of which is a dictionary containing the role and content of the message.
+    model (str): The name of the model to use for tokenization. Defaults to "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301".
+
+    Returns:
+    int: The number of tokens used by the list of messages.
+    """
+    try:
+        encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(model)
+    except KeyError:
+        print("Warning: model not found. Using cl100k_base encoding.")
+        encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
+    if model == "gpt-3.5-turbo":
+        # !Node: gpt-3.5-turbo may change over time. Returning num tokens assuming gpt-3.5-turbo-0301.")
+        return count_message_tokens(messages, model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0301")
+    elif model == "gpt-4":
+        # !Note: gpt-4 may change over time. Returning num tokens assuming gpt-4-0314.")
+        return count_message_tokens(messages, model="gpt-4-0314")
+    elif model == "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301":
+        tokens_per_message = 4  # every message follows <|start|>{role/name}\n{content}<|end|>\n
+        tokens_per_name = -1  # if there's a name, the role is omitted
+    elif model == "gpt-4-0314":
+        tokens_per_message = 3
+        tokens_per_name = 1
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"""num_tokens_from_messages() is not implemented for model {model}. See https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md for information on how messages are converted to tokens.""")
+    num_tokens = 0
+    for message in messages:
+        num_tokens += tokens_per_message
+        for key, value in message.items():
+            num_tokens += len(encoding.encode(value))
+            if key == "name":
+                num_tokens += tokens_per_name
+    num_tokens += 3  # every reply is primed with <|start|>assistant<|message|>
+    return num_tokens
+
+def count_string_tokens(string: str, model_name: str) -> int:
+    """
+    Returns the number of tokens in a text string.
+
+    Args:
+    string (str): The text string.
+    model_name (str): The name of the encoding to use. (e.g., "gpt-3.5-turbo")
+
+    Returns:
+    int: The number of tokens in the text string.
+    """
+    encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(model_name)
+    num_tokens = len(encoding.encode(string))
+    return num_tokens