Update app.py

app.py

@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@ from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
 import torch
 import os
 
-# Retrieve the token from environment variables
-api_token = os.getenv("HF_TOKEN")
+# Retrieve the token and strip any whitespace or newline characters
+api_token = os.getenv("HF_TOKEN").strip()
 
-# Load the Hugging Face model and tokenizer with authentication
+# Load the Hugging Face model and tokenizer with the cleaned token
 model_name = "ContactDoctor/Bio-Medical-MultiModal-Llama-3-8B-V1"
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, use_auth_token=api_token)
 model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, use_auth_token=api_token)
 
 
+
 # Define the function to process user input
 def generate_response(input_text):
     try: