On Start: TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

[Sack148]

Hi,
thank you for this work! It looks exactly like what i need.
Unfortunately I running into an issue trying to run it. It happens after the bot connected to the database.

~/VoteBot % python3 votebot.py                                                                                             
PG Ran ./db/build.sql                                                                                                                     
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                        
  File "votebot.py", line 10, in <module>                                                                                                 
    from voting import voteDB                                                                                                             
  File "/home/discord/VoteBot/voting/voteDB.py", line 21, in <module>                                                                     
    def addVote(creator: discord.User, question: str, options: list[str], limit: int, guild: discord.Guild, channel: discord.TextChannel, 
stage: int = 0, type: int = 1, num_win: int = 1, title_pre: str = "Poll") -> tuple[int, str]:                                             
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable                                                                                             

I am running Python 3.8.10. Is there any specific versino required? Or maybe special setting or something that i need to consider?

Thank you!

[ericthelemur]

In Python 3.8, to specify a list element type you needed to (import and) use typing.List, but in 3.9 this functionality was merged into the basic list.

There are 3 solutions:

1. upgrade to Python 3.9
2. replace any instance of list, dict, tuple, etc. in type signatures with List, Dict, Tuple (needs to be imported from typing)
3. Remove the brackets and contents from these types, or the types entirely. They are only useful for development.

[Sack148]

Awesome, thank you!
I've upgraded to 3.9 and the bot starts now. Maybe you could add that to the readme? Maybe together with the information that + is the default prefix and not ! as one could think based on your screenshot.

Thank you very much!