AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'append'

Question

I'm a python beginner and recently I've been trying to develop a bot for discord. The problem is that I've been getting the following error when I type the command "!new" :

await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "main.py", line 71, in on_message
    update_encouragements(encouraging_message)
  File "main.py", line 32, in update_encouragements
    encouragements.append(encouraging_message)
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'append'

I already tried to rewrite the update_encouragement function and the encouragement.append but I can't get out of this error. I'm out of ideas on how to solve this.

This is my code

import discord
import os
import requests
import json
import random
from replit import db

client = discord.Client()

sad_words = [
    "sad", "depressed", "unhappy", "angry", "miserable", "depressing"
]

starter_encouragements = [
    "Cheer up!",
  "Hang in there.",
  "You are a great person / bot!"
]

if "responding" not in db.keys():
  db["responding"] = True

def get_quote():
  response = requests.get("https://zenquotes.io/api/random")
  json_data = json.loads(response.text)
  quote = json_data[0]['q'] + " -" + json_data[0]['a']
  return (quote)

def update_encouragements(encouraging_message):
  if "encouragements" in db.keys():
    encouragements = db["encouragements"]
    encouragements.append(encouraging_message)
    db["encouragements"] = encouragements
  else:
    db["encouragements"] = [encouraging_message]


def delete_encouragement(index):
  encouragements = db ["encouragements"]
  if len(encouragements) > index:
    del encouragements[index]
    db["encouragements"] = encouragements


@client.event
async def on_ready():
  print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))


@client.event
async def on_message(message):
  if message.author == client.user:
    return

  msg = message.content

  if msg.startswith('!inspire'):
    quote = get_quote()
    await message.channel.send(quote)

  if db["responding"]:
    options = starter_encouragements
    if "encouragements" in db.keys():
      (options) += str(db["encouragements"])

  if any(word in msg for word in sad_words):
    await message.channel.send(random.choice(options))

  if msg.startswith("!new"):
      encouraging_message = msg.split("!new", 1)[1]
      update_encouragements(encouraging_message)
      await message.channel.send("new encouraging message added.")

  if msg.startswith("!del"):
    encouragements = []
    if "encouragements" in db.keys():
      index = int(msg.split("!del",1)[1])
      delete_encouragement(index)
      encouragements = db["encouragements"]
    await message.channel.send(encouragements)
  if msg.startswith("!lista"):
    encouragements = []
    if "encouragements" in db.keys():
      encouragements = db["encouragements"]
    await message.channel.send(encouragements)

  if msg.startswith("!responding"):
    value =  msg.split("!responding ",1)[0]

    if value.lower() == "true":
      db["encouragements"] = True
      await message.channel.send("Responding is on.")
    else:
      db["encouragements"] = False
      await message.channel.send("Responding is off.")

Answer 1

You are missing the .content method on line 32. They encouragements keywords is a boolean value that returns a true or false statement. So you can fix it by changing line 32 to:

encouragements.append(encouraging_message.content)

Answer 2

The error shows that the encouragements variable is bool.

check out dir(encouragements) to check which methods you can use on this object to get a list object