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Raveesh Yadav
Raveesh Yadav

Reputation: 33

Discord.py error while trying to create a private channel

I wanted to make a private channel when a user runs a simple command. The code is below:

@client.command(name='start')
async def createChannel(ctx):
    guild = ctx.guild
    member = ctx.author
    admin_role = get(guild.roles, name = "Admin")
    overwrites = {
        guild.default_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=False),
        member: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=True),
        admin_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=True)
    }
    try:
        channel = await guild.create_text_channel('{}_sentinel'.format(ctx.author), overwrites=overwrites)
    except:
        print("Error")

Full traceback:

Ignoring exception in command start:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 85, in wrapped
    ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/bot.py", line 44, in createChannel
    channel = await guild.create_text_channel('{}_sentinel'.format(ctx.author), overwrites=overwrites)
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/guild.py", line 948, in create_text_channel
    data = await self._create_channel(name, overwrites, ChannelType.text, category, reason=reason, **options)
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/guild.py", line 844, in _create_channel
    'id': target.id
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'id'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/bot.py", line 939, in invoke
    await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 863, in invoke
    await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)
  File "/Users/raveeshyadav/Raveesh/sentinel/sentinel/lib/python3.9/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 94, in wrapped
    raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'id'

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 215

Answers (1)

Hazzu
Hazzu

Reputation: 2180

This error is being generated by passing an key with a value of None in overwrites. It's probably admin_role. You can check:

  • You actually have a role named Admin on the guild;
  • You have activated guild intents so that you can have the list of roles.

Upvotes: 1

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