Discord.py Error Message Whenever User Dms Bot

Using the code linked here, I had created a custom prefix for my bot a couple months ago. However, I ran into an issue when I was finally getting into DM responses. Due to the cust

Solution 1:

Something I would recommend you to do is to make a default prefix in bot DMs. Let's say you want the default prefix to be ., change your get_prefix function to:

def get_prefix(client, message):
    try:
        with open('prefixes.json', 'r') as f:
            prefixes = json.load(f)
            return prefixes[str(message.guild.id)]
        
    except KeyError: # if the guild's prefix cannot be found in 'prefixes.json'
        with open('prefixes.json', 'r') as k:
            prefixes = json.load(k)
        prefixes[str(message.guild.id)] = 'bl!'

        with open('prefixes.json', 'w') as j:
            json.dump(prefixes, j, indent = 4)

        with open('prefixes.json', 'r') as t:
            prefixes = json.load(t)
            return prefixes[str(message.guild.id)]
        
    except: # I added this when I started getting dm error messages
        return '.' # This will return "." as a prefix. You can change it to any default prefix.