#🔒 Json and discord.py time formatting for a discord bot

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faint graniteBOT
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@ivory heron

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ivory heron
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I'm a complete beginner in discord.py and json and currently i dont have the time to learn them currently but i've messed around with the code and i got so much errors please someone help me fix this plss

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i only need help with the time formatting and stuff

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also dont ask why i use json for a database 💀

hearty mango
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what's the error you get exactly?

ivory heron
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when ppl do ,weekly or ,monthly or ,yearly it incorrectly saves it in the json

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an there are no timestamps in the json files

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also its like truncated

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somewhere among here i think

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bro 😭

brave sorrel
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Any errors? Please include the traceback

ivory heron
hearty mango
ivory heron
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uh

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sure

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one sec

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its weird

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wait let me do it safely so that it doesnt mess up ppl's balances

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ok so for example

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when i do weekly

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and dont quit the program everything is fine

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but if i restart the program and run weekly it doesnt even give a response

brave sorrel
ivory heron
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bro the whole thing is pretty long

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like 1000 lines

brave sorrel
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And?

ivory heron
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alr sure one sec

brave sorrel
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Also I see you have something like extensions (I assume this is another separate file right?). Discord.py has a built-in extensions ecosystem which also has the benefit of being able to hot-reload commands. They should be used in conjunction with cogs which are containers for commands (and can also function as categories in the built-in help command)

ivory heron
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here

brave sorrel
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And of course I also have to mention how JSON is a data serialization format and it should not be used as a replacement for a proper database, as it can lead to corrupt files under some (somewhat uncommon?) circumstances

ivory heron
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problem is im too dumb to use sqlite or smt like that 😂

ivory heron
brave sorrel
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say I have cogs/example.py as follows:

from discord.ext import commands

class Example(commands.Cog):
    @commands.command()
    async def example(self, ctx):
        await ctx.send("this is an example")

async def setup(bot):
    await bot.add_cog(Example())

In my main file I can do the following:

await bot.load_extension('cogs.example') # cogs/example.py becomes cogs.example (like an import)
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then you can also reload it as ```py
await bot.reload_extension('cogs.example')

brave sorrel
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  • How do you define your bot class?
  • Do you have any on_command_error/on_error events defined anywhere?
  • How do you run your bot? bot.run? bot.start? If the latter, do you set up logging?
ivory heron
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ok fine i'll read the docs

brave sorrel
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THANK YOU

ivory heron
brave sorrel
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ok can you show me that file?

ivory heron
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💀🔥

ivory heron
brave sorrel
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Where you define/initialize your bot class

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bot = commands.Bot(...) etc etc

ivory heron
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oh

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one sec

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this is bot.py

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this is main.py

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brave sorrel
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in that else you should log to console what your error is, for example as follows (which will make it be handled by bot.on_error, and it will log to console):

else:
    raise error
ivory heron
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like this?

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bro no way u acc looked through my code 💀

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i feel so honored

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ty bro

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let me see

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now look

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this is js the error

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console stuff no python code

brave sorrel
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So, ```py
File "c:\Users\Michael\Programming\Bots\Limbot\economy.py", line 184, in weekly
last_claim_time = datetime.fromisoformat(last_claim_time)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: fromisoformat: argument must be str

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Can you print(last_claim_time) before the if statement inside of the weekly command

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Ping me next time tho :) I kinda forgot about this since no notifications

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Your train of thought should be I got an error -> ok which line was it? -> ok there, what is going on there? (use print or other debug tools to figure that out)

faint graniteBOT
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