Client.get_self() crashes with AttributeError: 'http' object has no attribute 'session'

[ulidtko]

Summary

Probably uses obsolete version of aiohttp

Reproduction Steps

python -m venv reprovenv
source reprovenv/bin/activate.fish
pip install github
./test.py

Minimal Reproducible Code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import asyncio
import github

GITHUB_TOKEN = "gho_...................................."
GITHUB_USER = 'ulidtko'

async def main():
    gh = github.Client(username=GITHUB_USER, token=GITHUB_TOKEN)
    user = await gh.get_self()
    print(user)

asyncio.run(main())

Expected Results

A user record printed

Actual Results

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/tmp/test.py", line 14, in <module>
    asyncio.run(main())
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/asyncio/runners.py", line 204, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/asyncio/runners.py", line 127, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.0/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/asyncio/base_events.py", line 719, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/private/tmp/test.py", line 11, in main
    user = await gh.get_self()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/maksym.ivanov/Library/Python/3.14/lib/python/site-packages/github/client.py", line 215, in get_self
    return User(await self.http.get_self(), self.http)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/maksym.ivanov/Library/Python/3.14/lib/python/site-packages/github/http.py", line 188, in get_self
    result = await self.session.get(SELF_URL)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'http' object has no attribute 'session'

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Additional Context

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[VarMonke]

The error you’re seeing (AttributeError: 'http' object has no attribute 'session') happens when the client is used before it's properly awaited.

You can do the following

async def main():
    gh = github.Client(username=GITHUB_USER, token=GITHUB_TOKEN)
    await gh.start()
    user = await gh.get_self()
    print(user)
    await gh.close()

This functionality is cleanly handled by using an async context manager as below:

async def main():
    async with github.Client(username=GITHUB_USER, token=GITHUB_TOKEN) as client:
        user = await client.get_self()
        print(user)

asyncio.run(main())