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KeyError when assigning ''praw.Reddit'' to variable


I could successfully connect to reddit's servers with oauth2 some time ago, but when running my script just now, I get a KeyError followed by a NoSectionError. Code is below followed by exceptions, (The code has been reduced to its essentials).

import praw


# Configuration
APP_UA = 'useragent'
...
...
...

r = praw.Reddit(APP_UA)

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Directory\Python\lib\configparser.py", line 843, in items
    d.update(self._sections[section])
KeyError: 'useragent'

A NoSectionError occurred when handling the above exception.
"During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:"

'Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Directory\Python\Projects\myprj for Reddit, globaloffensive\oddshotcrawler.py", line 19, in <module>
    r = praw.Reddit(APP_UA)
  File "D:\Directory\Python\lib\site-packages\praw\reddit.py", line 84, in __init__
    **config_settings)
  File "D:\Directory\Python\lib\site-packages\praw\config.py", line 47, in __init__
    raw = dict(Config.CONFIG.items(site_name), **settings)
  File "D:\Directory\Python\lib\configparser.py", line 846, in items
    raise NoSectionError(section)
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'useragent'
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Solution

  • Try giving it a user_agent kwarg.

    r = praw.Reddit(useragent=APP_UA)