0.75056 - Perplexity API model update

Author: FlyingFathead

README.md

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 # Changelog
+- 0.75056 - switched to newer Perplexity API models due to new models / old model depreciation
+  - see [Perplexity API guide for supported models](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/model-cards)
 - v0.75055 - fixes to the html sanitizer (for Telegram's API; better handling of malformed html), using BeautifulSoup4+lxml for parsing now
 - v0.75054 - small fixes and more error catching in `calc_module.py`
 - v0.75053 - only include eligible territories in U.S. NWS queries

src/api_perplexity_search.py

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 config = configparser.ConfigParser()
 config.read(CONFIG_PATH)
 
-DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_MODEL = "llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online"
+# Perplexity API model to use -- NOTE: the models keep on changing; latest list is at: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/model-cards
+# As of December 2024/January 2025, the latest model is in the llama-3.1 family, i.e.: "llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online" (can be small/large/huge)
+# DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_MODEL = "llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online"
+DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_MODEL = "llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online"
 DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_MAX_TOKENS = 1024
 DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_TEMPERATURE = 0.0
 DEFAULT_PERPLEXITY_MAX_RETRIES = 3

src/main.py

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 # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 #
 # version of this program
-version_number = "0.75055"
+version_number = "0.75056"
 
 # Add the project root directory to Python's path
 import sys