Fix streaming delta merge for duplicate tool call indexes

[fengjikui]

Fixes #3201.

Summary

Streaming tool call deltas can include multiple entries with the same logical index in the first chunk. The accumulator used to assign that first list wholesale when the key was absent or None, so duplicate-index entries bypassed the existing recursive merge path and later argument fragments merged into the wrong physical list entry.

This changes the streaming delta accumulators to initialize indexed lists through the existing merge loop instead of taking the first indexed list as-is. It also applies the same initial-list normalization to the chat completion snapshot path and the matching assistant streaming accumulator, which shared the same early-return behavior.

Root cause

accumulate_delta() already knew how to merge list entries by their logical index, but only after an accumulator entry existed. When the first streamed value for tool_calls contained two entries with index: 0, the fast path copied both entries directly into the snapshot. The next chunk then merged into physical slot 0 while the earlier arguments fragment stayed orphaned in physical slot 1, producing invalid final JSON.

Validation

Reproduced on current origin/main with a minimal script: duplicate index: 0 entries remained as two physical list entries and the assertion that they merge failed.

env -u HTTP_PROXY -u HTTPS_PROXY -u ALL_PROXY -u http_proxy -u https_proxy -u all_proxy uv run --with pytest --with pytest-xdist --with pytest-asyncio --with respx --with inline-snapshot --with syrupy --with anyio --with pydantic --with httpx --with distro pytest tests/lib/test_streaming_deltas.py tests/lib/chat/test_completions_streaming.py::test_duplicate_tool_call_index_in_initial_chunk -q
# 3 passed

uv run --with ruff ruff check src/openai/lib/streaming/_deltas.py src/openai/lib/streaming/_assistants.py src/openai/lib/streaming/chat/_completions.py tests/lib/test_streaming_deltas.py tests/lib/chat/test_completions_streaming.py
# All checks passed!

uv run --with ruff ruff format --check src/openai/lib/streaming/_deltas.py src/openai/lib/streaming/_assistants.py src/openai/lib/streaming/chat/_completions.py tests/lib/test_streaming_deltas.py tests/lib/chat/test_completions_streaming.py
# 5 files already formatted

git diff --check origin/main..HEAD
# passed

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Thanks for the fix and regression tests! We’ve simplified the shared accumulator and expanded the coverage. The full diff review and checks look good.