API Does not work - send_message Method Output erroring #45

[gullpavon]

When I try to access the response from the send_message method in a loop, I am receiving a TypeError stating that string indices must be integers, not 'str'. Here is a snippet of the code I am using:

bot = "a2"
message = "What is reverse engineering?"

# Create new chat thread
# Streamed example:
for chunk in client.send_message(bot, message):
    print(chunk["response"], end="", flush=True)
print("\n")

Exact Error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[177], line 7
      4 # Create new chat thread
      5 # Streamed example:
      6 for chunk in client.send_message(bot, message):
----> 7     print(chunk["response"], end="", flush=True)
      8 print("\n")

TypeError: string indices must be integers, not 'str'

Rather, when I print chunk to see what's happening, the code produced the following output, where each character is printed separately, rather than providing a cohesive message or data object:

R
e
v
e
r
s
e
 
e
n
g
.
.
.

From the output, it seems that the client.send_message method is returning a string instead of a more structured data type like a list or a generator of messages. This is causing the for loop to iterate over each character in the string individually.

Any guidance on how to modify this code to correctly greatly appreciated.

[snowby666]

Did you update to the latest version?

[gullpavon]

yes