I am recreating the basic telegram bot example from here, but I am having a slight problem.
import logging
from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler, MessageHandler, Filters
# Enable logging
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# Define a few command handlers. These usually take the two arguments bot and
# update. Error handlers also receive the raised TelegramError object in error.
def start(update, context):
"""Send a message when the command /start is issued."""
update.message.reply_text('Hi!')
def help(update, context):
"""Send a message when the command /help is issued."""
update.message.reply_text('Help!')
def echo(update, context):
"""Echo the user message."""
update.message.reply_text(update.message.text)
def error(update, context):
"""Log Errors caused by Updates."""
logger.warning('Update "%s" caused error "%s"', update, context.error)
def main():
"""Start the bot."""
# Create the Updater and pass it your bot's token.
# Make sure to set use_context=True to use the new context based callbacks
# Post version 12 this will no longer be necessary
updater = Updater("YOUR TOKEN HERE",use_context=True)
# Get the dispatcher to register handlers
dp = updater.dispatcher
# on different commands - answer in Telegram
dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start))
dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("help", help))
# on noncommand i.e message - echo the message on Telegram
dp.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.text, echo))
# log all errors
dp.add_error_handler(error)
# Start the Bot
updater.start_polling()
# Run the bot until you press Ctrl-C or the process receives SIGINT,
# SIGTERM or SIGABRT. This should be used most of the time, since
# start_polling() is non-blocking and will stop the bot gracefully.
updater.idle()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
I am getting below error after executing the script:
$ python test1.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 64, in <module>
main()
File "test1.py", line 39, in main
updater = Updater(TOKEN,use_context=True)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'use_context'
2
Answers
The error is telling you that
use_context
is not a valid keyword argument for the Updater initializer. That argument is no longer supported in the 12th version of Python Telegram Bot.I guess you did
pip install python-telegram-bot==12.0.0b1 --upgrade
to install the library and it’s installing the version 12.0.0b1.You can do again the installation by running the following commnads:
Uninstall the current version of python-telegram-bot:
pip uninstall python-telegram-bot
Install the 11 version of the library:
pip install python-telegram-bot==11
Also, if you don’t want to change your library version and keep using
python-telegram-bot
12.0.0, you can just remove theuse_context
argument from the instantiation of the Updater class.This line:
Would become:
use_context
is available as of version 12 of python-telegram-bot. You can find out the version you have installed viapip show python-telegram-bot
.The simplest solution would be to just remove the parameter
use_context
, i.e. replacewith