So I am following a tutorial and am not sure away around this error and I follow the tutorial to the T how ever the man in the video did not get this problem where I did and not sure how to deal with it.
options = starter_encouragements
if "encouragements" in db.keys():
options = options + db["encouragements"]
Ignoring exception in on_ready
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 343, in _run_event
await coro(*args, **kwargs)
File "main.py", line 56, in on_ready
options = options + db["encouragements"]
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list
If someone could tell me away around this error I would be able to better prepare myself in the future when I hit this error again.
Without having more code to work with, this immediate error indicates that you are attempting to concatenate a string onto a list or vice-versa, which doesn’t work. You can either concatenate lists or concatenate strings or push a string onto a list or stringify a list and concatenate that with a string. Regardless, the concatenation has to be with the same type variables.
A link to the complete code or even better, a live project, would probably get you better help.
Here is the full code, I have it typed the same as the Tutorial but am not sure how I ran into a problem that he didn’t, I understand I have to connect them like a string but not sure where to connect them if I don’t understand the problem.
import discord
import os
import requests
import json
import random
from replit import db
client = discord.Client()
sad_words = ["sad", "depressed", "unhappy", "angry", "miserable"]
starter_encouragements = [
"Cheer up!",
"Hang in there.",
"You are a great person / bot!"
]
if "responding" not in db.keys():
db["responding"] = True
def get_quote():
response = requests.get("https://zenquotes.io/api/random")
json_data = json.loads(response.text)
quote = json_data[0]["q"] + " -" + json_data[0]["a"]
return(quote)
def update_encouragements(encouraging_message):
if "encouragements" in db.keys():
encouragements = db["encouragements"]
encouragements.append(encouraging_message)
db["encouragements"] = encouragements
else:
db["encouragements"] = [encouraging_message]
def delete_encouragment(index):
encouragements = db["encouragements"]
if len(encouragements) > index:
del encouragements[index]
db["encouragements"] = encouragements
@client.event
async def on_ready():
print("We have logged in as {0.user}".format(client))
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
if message.author == client.user:
return
msg = message.content
if msg.startswith("$inspire"):
quote = get_quote()
await message.channel.send(quote)
if db["responding"]:
options = starter_encouragements
if "encouragements" in db.keys():
options = options + db["encouragements"]
if any(word in msg for word in sad_words):
await message.channel.send(random.choice(options))
if msg.startswith("$new"):
encouraging_message = msg.split("$new ",1)[1]
update_encouragements(encouraging_message)
await message.channel.send("New encouraging message added.")
if msg.startswith("$del"):
encouragements = []
if "encouragements" in db.keys():
index = int(msg.split("$del",1)[1])
delete_encouragment(index)
encouragements = db["encouragements"]
await message.channel.send(encouragements)
if msg.startswith("$list"):
encouragements = []
if "encouragements" in db.keys():
encouragements = db["encouragements"]
await message.channel.send(encouragements)
if msg.startswith("$responding"):
value = msg.split("$responding ",1)[1]
if value.lower() == "true":
db["responding"] = True
await message.channel.send("Responding is on.")
else:
db["responding"] = False
await message.channel.send("Responding is off.")
client.run(os.getenv("TOKEN"))
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