diff --git a/litellm/proxy/test_openai_request.py b/litellm/proxy/test_openai_request.py
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+import openai
+client = openai.OpenAI(
+    api_key="anything",
+    base_url="http://0.0.0.0:8000"
+)
+
+# request sent to model set on litellm proxy, `litellm --model`
+response = client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages = [
+    {
+        "role": "user",
+        "content": "this is a test request, write a short poem"
+    }
+])
+
+print(response)