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Error when accessing replit database in python

Whenever i try to access my database with value = db["key"] I get the error TypeError: unexpected type "float".

This never happened before, can someone tell me what this means?

the file with problems = cogs/xp.py

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your repl is private so we can't see your code.

thx for letting me know, i set it to public

i see, what are you exactly trying to do here?

the types are already correct, and no type will ever need to be converted. Also, these values don't appear to be valid dict values.

same error happens when i don't do the dict() it was just a test i forgot to remove

what line?

any line where i want to get a value from the database
example: xpDB = db["xp"]

well i mean you put the dict function on all of them so you should remove that

I did and it still errors

no you haven't?

for me it shows multiDB = db["xpMulti"]
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strange maybe the file didn't save

I found the solution, apparently a dict in the database can't have a float as a value.
The xp is normally an int but the multiplier made it a float so i now round that to an int.
And I now store the multipliers as a string which i can later convert back to a float

Replit DB is based on JSON and it doesn't support anything other than strings as keys.

ohhhhhhh that makes a lot of things clear.
but when i stored info on my own pc in JSON for a project I was able to store integers and floats

They were converted to strings tho.

no that's ridiculous json can have numbers as the key

however, dicts cannot.

nice solution
yeah I thought the python db would get all these nitty types down for you, but I guess not

i had keys as strings and values as floats / ints in my json, they werent converted

in json, floats and ints are indistinguishable and everything is a float