openai/openai-python · error · ValueError

Expected a non-empty value for `group_id` but received {grou

Error message

Expected a non-empty value for `group_id` but received {group_id!r}

What it means

The SDK raises ValueError when group_id is falsy before issuing the synchronous GET /organization/groups/{group_id} request (groups.py:131). It is a generated guard that prevents building a URL with an empty path segment. The error occurs locally, before any HTTP traffic.

Source

Thrown at src/openai/resources/admin/organization/groups/groups.py:131

        extra_headers: Headers | None = None,
        extra_query: Query | None = None,
        extra_body: Body | None = None,
        timeout: float | httpx2.Timeout | None | NotGiven = not_given,
    ) -> Group:
        """
        Retrieves a group.

        Args:
          extra_headers: Send extra headers

          extra_query: Add additional query parameters to the request

          extra_body: Add additional JSON properties to the request

          timeout: Override the client-level default timeout for this request, in seconds
        """
        if not group_id:
            raise ValueError(f"Expected a non-empty value for `group_id` but received {group_id!r}")
        return self._get(
            path_template("/organization/groups/{group_id}", group_id=group_id),
            options=make_request_options(
                extra_headers=extra_headers,
                extra_query=extra_query,
                extra_body=extra_body,
                timeout=timeout,
                security={"admin_api_key_auth": True},
            ),
            cast_to=Group,
        )

    def update(
        self,
        group_id: str,
        *,
        name: str,
        # Use the following arguments if you need to pass additional parameters to the API that aren't available via kwargs.

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Solutions

1. Get a valid ID first, e.g. from client.admin.organization.groups.list()
2. Validate the variable is a non-empty string before the call (assert group_id)
3. Fix the upstream source (config file, DB row) that supplies the empty ID

Example fix

# before
group = client.admin.organization.groups.retrieve(group_id=group_id)  # group_id == ''

# after
assert group_id, 'group_id must be a non-empty string'
group = client.admin.organization.groups.retrieve(group_id=group_id)

if not group_id:
    raise ValueError('group_id is required to retrieve a group')

def is_valid_group_id(v: object) -> bool:
    return isinstance(v, str) and bool(v.strip())

When it happens

Trigger: Calling client.admin.organization.groups.retrieve(group_id='') or with None; typical when the group ID was never captured after group creation or was trimmed from an empty config value.

Common situations: Storing group IDs in a database/env var that is empty; copy-paste code samples with placeholder IDs like ''; reading the ID from a dict key that does not exist (yielding None).

Understand the failure class

Background: Missing required parameter errors: what 'X is required' and 'the required X param is missing' mean, and how to fix them — this error's family across 27 libraries.

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AI-assisted analysis of openai/openai-python@9917c6e28e (2026-08-28). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ae44329a022ad635. Report an issue: GitHub.