Discord bot code has broken after being moved onto a new pc

Question

So I had a discord bot I was working on a while ago and I finally got around to moving it to my new pc but it randomly decided that my unchanged code had a problem when it worked perfectly before moving it.

This is the code in question:

import discord
import asyncio
from discord.ext import commands
import os
from discord.utils import get
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

currentcreator = 0

DISCORD_TOKEN = os.getenv("Token")

print("Logged on")

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="/")

@bot.command(name="embed")
@commands.cooldown(1, 30, commands.BucketType.user)
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx, arg):
        argument = arg
        embed=discord.Embed(title=argument, url="https://www.test.com/", description="Description", color=0x3b05ff)
        embed.set_author(name="Author Name")
        embed.add_field(name="Field Name", value="Field Value", inline=False)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

@bot.command(name="start")
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx):
        if not currentcreator == 0:
                await message.channel.send("Someone is already making a profile, please wait")
        currentcreater = ctx.author
        dir = r'C:\\Users\\FiercePC\Desktop\DiscordMMO\User-Profiles'
        MessageAuthor = str(ctx.author.id)
        ProfileDIR = os.path.join(dir,MessageAuthor)
        doesExist = os.path.exists(ProfileDIR)
        if doesExist == False:
                embed=discord.Embed(title="Creating Profile", url="", description=MessageAuthor+", your profile is being created", color=0x3b05ff)
                await ctx.send(embed=embed)
                os.makedirs(ProfileDIR,1)
                file = os.path.join(ProfileDIR,"Level.txt")
                open(file,"x")
                openfile = open(file,"w")
                openfile.write("0")
                openfile.close()
                file = os.path.join(ProfileDIR,"EXP.txt")
                open(file,"x")
                embed=discord.Embed(title="Creating Profile", url="", description=MessageAuthor+", your profile is being created", color=0x3b05ff)
                openfile = open(file,"w")
                openfile.write("0")
                openfile.close()
                file = os.path.join(ProfileDIR,"Strength.txt")
                open(file,"x")
                openfile = open(file,"w")
                openfile.write("1")
                openfile.close()
                embed=discord.Embed(title="Basic Profile Created", url='', description=MessageAuthor+', please use "/races" for a list of races, use "/raceinfo (Insert race here)" to view what bonus races give and finally use "/setrace (Insert race here)" to choose your race"', color=0x3b05ff)
                currentcreator = 0

@bot.command(name="races")
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx):
        embed=discord.Embed(title="Race List", url="", description="Human,", color=0x3b05ff)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)                

@bot.command(name="raceinfo")
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx, arg):
        raceInfo = arg
        if raceInfo == "Human" or "human":
                embed=discord.Embed(title="Human Information", url="", description="Humans spread in this galaxy from their home planet of Coruscant, they are very good at adapting to all conditions thrown at them. Humans begin with a bonus 2 points in natural protection (reduced damage to natural elements like blizzards, sandstorms, freezing, etc) and they also begin with an extra point in speed (increased walking speed). Humans have a 7% initial force chance but it only increses by 0.34% when they level up (this bonus is only added up to level 21 when the final force roll takes place, if it fails you are permanently force un-sensetive)", color=0x3b05ff)        
                await ctx.send(embed=embed)

@bot.command(name="setrace")
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx, arg):
        embed=discord.Embed(title="Human Information", url="", description="Human,", color=0x3b05ff)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

                
@bot.command(name="test")
async def foo(ctx, arg):
        await ctx.send(arg)
        await ctx.send(ctx.author)

bot.run('Token')

And this is the error message:

Ignoring exception in command start: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\FiercePC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 85, in wrapped ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\FiercePC\OneDrive\Desktop\Star_Wars_Combine-cord\Scripts\Character_Creator.py", line 30, in some_crazy_function_name if not currentcreator == 0: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'currentcreator' referenced before assignment

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

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\FiercePC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\bot.py", line 902, in invoke await ctx.command.invoke(ctx) File "C:\Users\FiercePC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 864, in invoke await injected(*ctx.args, **ctx.kwargs) File "C:\Users\FiercePC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\discord\ext\commands\core.py", line 94, in wrapped raise CommandInvokeError(exc) from exc discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'currentcreator' referenced before assignment

Max Shouman Max Shouman · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-11T17:16:34

You cannot refer to a global variable inside a function without explicitly specifying that:

@bot.command(name="start")
async def some_crazy_function_name(ctx):
        global currentcreator
        if not currentcreator == 0:

If you don't state that you're referring to a global variable, Python will look for that variable name only inside the function block, and throw an UnboundLocalError if it doesn't find the assignment.

Discord bot code has broken after being moved onto a new pc

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