TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable python3

Question

I'm just making discord bot with python3

    if message.content.startswith('!meal'):
        with open('menu.json', encoding='utf-8') as json_file:
            data = json.load(json_file)
        channel = message.channel
        await channel.send('this is meal info!')
        await channel.send(data())

but I got errors when I used this command

~/pythonruby/discord bot/main.py", line 30, in on_message
    await channel.send(data())
TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

this errors.. I tried make data to dict..

Answer 1

The problem is that you are treating as a callable the returned value of json.loads . Check this table to see what are the possible values you could get from.

I just reviewed the discord documentation , and you are supposed pass a string as the first parameter, so you do not need to treat data as a callable since after running json.loads you will probably have a string.

The following line will probably solve your problem:

await channel.send(data)

However, in any case data is something different than a string, you will need to cast it:

await channel.send(str(data)) # or f"{data}"

Answer 2

You can always send the dict as a string like this

await channel.send(str(data))

But... that may not be the friendliest representation of the data.