Getting an AttributeError: 'Update' object has no attribute 'send_message' when I try to send a message with Telegram bot

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Im getting an AttributeError: ‘Update’ object has no attribute ‘send_message’ when I try to send a message.
And I know that ‘Update’ class does not have a ‘send_message’ attribute but Im not using the ‘Update’ class.
Im using the ‘bot’ class but Im still getting the same exact error.

Here is my code:

from telegram.ext import Updater, CommandHandler
from telegram import Bot

bot = Bot(token='TOKEN')

def start(bot, update):
    bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="Hello")


updater = Updater(token='TOKEN')
dispatcher = updater.dispatcher
command_handler = CommandHandler('start', start)
dispatcher.add_handler(command_handler)

updater.start_polling()

Here is the error;

bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="Hello")
AttributeError: 'Update' object has no attribute 'send_message'

Tried to import the Bot library separately but still nothing worked.

Asked By: Sangeeth Karasinghe

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Answer 1

I finally got it working! You need to add a context parameter instead of an update parameter

Here is the updated code:

def start(bot, context):
context.bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="Hello")

start_handler = CommandHandler("start", start)
dispatcher.add_handler(start_handler)

Answered By: Sangeeth Karasinghe

Getting an AttributeError: 'Update' object has no attribute 'send_message' when I try to send a message with Telegram bot

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