await error

hi. i am trying to make a discord chat bot.
when i put in “await”
there is this error appearing : Syntax Error : ‘await’ outside function

Answered by KHZ [earned 5 cycles]

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Btw your repl is private so we can't look at your code. If you don't want us to see the code try attaching a screenshot of the code where the error is so we can take a look at the error.

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RmyDahGod

@KHZ

ohh shoot i didn’t see, let me put it in public

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RmyDahGod

@KHZ

ight, it’s in public.

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KHZ

@RmyDahGod

Yup the problem is that you are using await outside of an async function. The last two lines should be like this:


@client.event
async def on_message(msg):
  if msg.author == client.user:
    return
  
  if msg.startswith('hello'):
    await ctx.send('yo, whats good.')

I also made some necessary changes. And you should put the token in a .env file so that even if the repl is public you don't need to remove the token to show it to someone.

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19wintersp

You can only use await inside of an async function.

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19wintersp

@xxpertHacker

That's unrelated, this is Python

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xxpertHacker

@19wintersp

How was I supposed to have known?

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