discord.py / PRAW: AttributeError: 'coroutine' object has no attribute 'hot'

Question

I recently created a meme bot, similar to DankMemer. When I run this:

    @client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author.bot:
        return
    if '!meme' in message.content:
        await message.channel.purge(limit=1)
        memes_submissions = reddit.subreddit('memes').hot()
        post_to_pick = random.randint(1, 10)
        for i in range(0, post_to_pick):
            submission = next(x for x in memes_submissions if not x.stickied)

        embed = discord.Embed(title=submission.title)
        embed.set_image(url=submission.url)
        await message.channel.send(embed=embed)

This error appears:

C:/Users/HP/PycharmProjects/Nudity/main.py:28: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'SubredditHelper.__call__' was never awaited
  memes_submissions = reddit.subreddit('memes').hot()
RuntimeWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the object allocation traceback
Ignoring exception in on_message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\HP\PycharmProjects\Nudity\venv\lib\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 343, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:/Users/HP/PycharmProjects/Nudity/main.py", line 28, in on_message
    memes_submissions = reddit.subreddit('memes').hot()
AttributeError: 'coroutine' object has no attribute 'hot'

How can I fix this? (Also, I know I could use @client.command but I prefer the Event one)

Answer 1

I'm going to assume you Async PRAW, since PRAW does not use coroutines.

All of Async PRAW's methods are coroutines, and you need to await each one.

Since .subreddit() is a coroutine, you need to await .subreddit(), and then call .hot() once it's resolved.

Here is what should be a working example:

meme_subreddit = await reddit.subreddit('memes')
memes_submissions = meme_subreddit.hot()