discord.ext.commands.bot Ignoring exception in command note

Question

I am trying to make a discord bot in python with a note command where te user can make a note. The note gets saved using the database from replit.

Imports, commands, prefix ect, ect (Prefix = !)

@bot.command()
async def note(ctx, *, note_add):
  author = ctx.author
  
  if note_add.lower() == "note" or "see":
    note_text = db[author]
    print(note_text)
  else:
    db[author] = note_add

Output when I tried !note (Some text)

2023-03-01 13:37:01 ERROR    discord.ext.commands.bot Ignoring exception in command note
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 229, in wrapped
    ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "main.py", line 267, in note
    note_text = db[author]
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/replit/database/database.py", line 439, in __getitem__
    raw_val = self.get_raw(key)
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/replit/database/database.py", line 477, in get_raw
    r = self.sess.get(self.db_url + "/" + urllib.parse.quote(key))
  File "/nix/store/hd4cc9rh83j291r5539hkf6qd8lgiikb-python3-3.10.8/lib/python3.10/urllib/parse.py", line 870, in quote
    return quote_from_bytes(string, safe)
  File "/nix/store/hd4cc9rh83j291r5539hkf6qd8lgiikb-python3-3.10.8/lib/python3.10/urllib/parse.py", line 895, in quote_from_bytes
    raise TypeError("quote_from_bytes() expected bytes")
TypeError: quote_from_bytes() expected bytes

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/bot.py", line 1349, in invoke
    await ctx.command.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 1023, in invoke
    await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs)  # type: ignore
  File "/home/runner/DiscordBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 238, in wrapped
    raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: TypeError: quote_from_bytes() expected bytes

Answer 1

Seems like author is not of type bytes or byte-like object. note_text = db[author]

You might need to go for author.id or author.name, something like that.