Include error message if no error text

[SmartManoj]

Set error_text to the message attribute of the exception if error_text is not already set

• Use getattr to retrieve the message attribute from the exception object
• Use the string representation of the exception if the message attribute is not present

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Code:

import litellm
import os
model = 'openrouter/google/gemma-2-27b-it:free'

response = litellm.completion(
    model=model,    
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Hello'*8555}],
)


print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Old Error:

litellm.exceptions.BadRequestError: litellm.BadRequestError: OpenrouterException -

New Error:

litellm.exceptions.BadRequestError: litellm.BadRequestError: OpenrouterException - This endpoint's maximum context length is 8192 tokens. However, you requested about 10708 tokens (10708 of text input). Please reduce the length of either one, or use the "middle-out" transform to compress your prompt automatically.

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