🔒 Error

[azure valley]

Im coding a custom bot made with Python and I get a Error the part of the code that Is giving an error Is client.run(os.getenv('TOKEN'))

[terse moth]

@azure valley

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[kind ingot]

What's the full traceback?

[modern siren]

show us the full traceback

and the code

[azure valley]

Code and traceback.

@modern siren

@kind ingot

[modern siren]

Hm

are you sure that you downloaded the discord pip library

[azure valley]

How?

Insatll pip discord?

Install*

[modern siren]

pip install discord

[azure valley]

Should I do In It shell?

[modern siren]

yes

if it does not work

try this

[azure valley]

Ok done now lemme try.

[modern siren]

py -m pip install discord

[azure valley]

It downloaded but I still get the error

[modern siren]

hm

could you hover over this part of your code

and show us the error message?

[modern siren]

???????????

anyways that seems to not be a problem.

btw i am so sorry

that i cannot help ou

because i have no experience of discord bots in python

i am so sorry

[azure valley]

Ok.

@kind ingot

You have any idea of how to fix?

[modern siren]

please help thi scase

[kind ingot]

It looks like you don't have an API key in you environment

[azure valley]

Im not using one. Its just If message contect = !hello then It replies with Hello!

[kind ingot]

You'll need to get an API key

[azure valley]

For what?

Im new to Python

Im using a 3 year old vid.

U have a vid that I can use that will work?

[edgy cobalt]

@azure valley create a .env file with
TOKEN = yourbottoken

[azure valley]

Thats what I've done.

[edgy cobalt]

show your env file

Wait... Is that replit?

[azure valley]

Yeah.

[edgy cobalt]

Pretty sure there's another way to add env vars then

Try googling

[heavy fable]

did you install dotenv-python ?

[azure valley]

And also discord py.

[edgy cobalt]

They're not using it

[edgy cobalt]

This will hopefully fix your error

[azure valley]

How do I add It?

With the other way.

[modern siren]

yet

[edgy cobalt]

https://ask.replit.com/t/how-to-add-environment-variables-into-replit-in-python/19356/2
first google result

[edgy cobalt]

they wont need it

[azure valley]

Likt this?

Like*

[edgy cobalt]

Try it

in the client.run() u can replace what's inside with my_secret

Since you're already defining it before

[edgy cobalt]

no, client.run(my_secret)

[azure valley]

Now i get this error.

[edgy cobalt]

did you set MY_SECRET = yourtoken
in the Secrets tab?

[azure valley]

Yeah the value as my token

[heavy fable]

try import load_dotenv ig py from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv()

[edgy cobalt]

I'm not sure then... someone more experienced with replit can help perhaps

[azure valley]

What do I pput In the string?

()

[heavy fable]

nothing

[azure valley]

I put It at the top

[heavy fable]

try to run it

[azure valley]

It didnt work

[heavy fable]

what is the error

[azure valley]

Ima reset my token after

But Is this correct In my ENV file?

[modern siren]

DONT SHARE THE TOKEN BRUH

at least blur it

[azure valley]

Its an old one

I already reset It.

[modern siren]

oh ok

[heavy fable]

wait a min

your token not in TOKEN = '..........'

ig you forgot the ' at last

[azure valley]

Fixed and still didnt work.

[zinc pendant]

if its not string then print out what it holds

its None i see

[heavy fable]

try my_secret = os.getenv("TOKEN")

[zinc pendant]

well you are trying to access MY_SECRET variable but you named it TOKEN

[zinc pendant]

you have 2 ) at the end?

also why you create MY_SECRET variable when you dont use it

when you directly pass token to .run

[azure valley]

Idk but I removed the ) but It still says Its there.

[zinc pendant]

just remove that variable

[zinc pendant]

yea i still see 2 )

where did you even get that code from

[azure valley]

Its my first time ever coding and I made It.

[zinc pendant]

i wouldnt start from discord bot it will be confusing a lot

i recommend first learning at least basics of python

[azure valley]

I have I meant this Is my first time coding a bot.

I used to make python stuff before.

Like micro bits.

And just In the console.

[zinc pendant]

doesnt look like if you dont see a problem with 2 closing )

[azure valley]

I thought you meant line 25 not 4.

[zinc pendant]

you showed error on line 4

not on line 25

[azure valley]

Okay.

client.run(os.getenv('TOKEN'))

I tried to do this.

[heavy fable]

it work ?

[azure valley]

Didnt work.

Just adding to the error

[zinc pendant]

if you still want to try your best at discord bots

i recommend hiting this guide https://fallendeity.github.io/discord.py-masterclass/creating-a-bot/

this examples will work 4sure and wont be so outdated

[azure valley]

I did user a 3 year old vid lol.

User*

Use*

[zinc pendant]

this guide was written pretty recently

and for past 3 years few things changed in the lib

[terse moth]

Using .env files in Python

.env (dotenv) files are a type of file commonly used for storing application secrets and variables, for example API tokens and URLs, although they may also be used for storing other configurable values. While they are commonly used for storing secrets, at a high level their purpose is to load environment variables into a program.

Dotenv files are especially suited for storing secrets as they are a key-value store in a file, which can be easily loaded in most programming languages and ignored by version control systems like Git with a single entry in a .gitignore file.

In Python you can use dotenv files with the python-dotenv module from PyPI, which can be installed with pip install python-dotenv. To use dotenv files you'll first need a file called .env, with content such as the following:

TOKEN=a00418c85bff087b49f23923efe40aa5

Next, in your main Python file, you need to load the environment variables from the dotenv file you just created:

from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

The variables from the file have now been loaded into your program's environment, and you can access them using os.getenv() anywhere in your program, like this:

from os import getenv

my_token = getenv("TOKEN")

For further reading about tokens and secrets, please read this explanation.

[zinc pendant]

and this should explain you how environment variables work and how to use them in code

[azure valley]

I got the bot running but now It says await outside of function.

[zinc pendant]

just check the guide i linked

[terse moth]

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