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ProgramOfThought module

As explained in Building LLM Applications with DSPy

ProgramOfThought is a DSPy module that prompts a language model to generate and execute Python code as part of producing a response.

ProgramOfThought is a DSPy module that prompts a language model to write Python code for a response, executes the code with retry logic, and returns its output. section 2.6

It takes a signature, such as question-to-answer, and can be swapped independently of that signature. DSPy executes modules through forward() internally; explicitly calling forward() produces a warning as of DSPy 3.0. section 2.6

prog = dspy.ProgramOfThought("question -> answer")
prediction = prog(question="What is 8383.33 times 8228.11?")

A question-to-answer ProgramOfThought call using a multiplication question. section 2.6

How Building LLM Applications with DSPy covers it

How deep it goes
Explains prompt generation, Python execution, retry logic, and returned output.
Examples
Demonstrates a question-to-answer signature with a multiplication question.
What you can do after
Apply it via DSPy to answer questions using generated and executed Python code.
How it connects
Connects DSPy signatures and modules with language-model prompting and Python execution.
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