fix chat history formatting by keeping the chat history strip list comprehension

app.py

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import os
 
 import gradio as gr
 import retrieval
-from text_generation import Client, InferenceAPIClient
-
 # UNCOMMENT ONLY WHEN RUNNING LOCALLY (not on Spaces)
 # from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from text_generation import Client, InferenceAPIClient
+
 # load API keys from globally-availabe .env file
 # SECRETS_FILEPATH = "/mnt/project/chatbotai/huggingface_cache/internal_api_keys.env"
 # load_dotenv(dotenv_path=SECRETS_FILEPATH, override=True)
@@ -124,12 +124,16 @@ def predict(
     chat = [(history[i].strip(), history[i + 1].strip()) for i in range(0, len(history) - 1, 2)]
     yield chat, history, None, None, None, []
 
+  chat = [(history[i].strip(), history[i + 1].strip()) for i in range(0, len(history) - 1, 2)]
+  
   # Pinecone context retrieval
   top_context_list = ta.retrieve_contexts_from_pinecone(user_question=inputs, topk=NUM_ANSWERS_GENERATED)
+  # yield chat, history, top_context_list[0], top_context_list[1], top_context_list[2], []
   yield chat, history, top_context_list[0], top_context_list[1], top_context_list[2], []
 
   # run CLIP
   images_list = ta.clip_text_to_image(inputs)
+  # yield chat, history, top_context_list[0], top_context_list[1], top_context_list[2], images_list
   yield chat, history, top_context_list[0], top_context_list[1], top_context_list[2], images_list