I'm writing a telegram bot with python

Question

I want to write a telegram bot via Python, but it doesn't work.

import telebot

bot = telebot.TeleBot("my_token")

@bot.message_handler(content_types=['text'])
def sending(message):
    bot.send_message(message.chat.id, message.text)


# RUN

bot.polling(non_stop=True)

Returns to me the following problem.

AttributeError: 'TeleBot' object has no attribute 'message_handler'

Answer 1

This is a common issue, unfortunately. I guess you installed the lib as "pip install telebot", which leads to another package. You need to uninstall telebot, install pytelegrambotapi, but leave "import telebot" in code.

Answer 2

As the source code shows (assuming you import the module obtained from pip, that is this), there is no definition for message_handler. In which case you need to use @bot.route which takes a string as argument as shown in the example within the repository readme (second link or here).

Example:

@bot.route('/command ?(.*)')
def sending(message, cmd):
    bot.send_message(something, something_else)

Answer 3

Try this one. At first write:

pip3 uninstall telebot

After you do it write:

pip3 uninstall PyTelegramBotAPI

And the last step:

pip3 install PyTelegramBotAPI==2.2.3

It worked for me, I'm working on debian 9. So if you are working on Debian or on linux, it should work for you.