TypeError: Object of type TextIOWrapper is not JSON serializable

If the code was to work properly then whenever someone types something in the chat they get 5 experience and that information gets put into a .json file, but instead what happens is whenever someone types something into the chat it gives me this error.

on_message users = json.dumps(f)
TypeError: Object of type TextIOWrapper is not JSON serializable

Here is the code that I am using:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord.ext.commands import Bot
import asyncio
import json
from json import dumps, loads, JSONEncoder, JSONDecoder
import os
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='^')
os.chdir(r'C:\Users\quiny\Desktop\sauce')
@client.event
async def on_ready(): print ("Ready when you are xd") print ("I am running on " + client.user.name) print ("With the ID: " + client.user.id)
@client.event
async def on_member_join(member): with open('users.json', 'r') as f: users = json.dumps(f) await update_data(users, member) with open('users.json', 'w') as f: json.loads("users, f")
@client.event
async def on_message(message): with open('users.json', 'r') as f: users = json.dumps(f) await update_data(users, message.author) await add_experience(users, message.author, 5) await level_up(users, message.author, message.channel) with open('users.json', 'w') as f: json.loads("users, f")
async def update_data(users, user): if not user.id in users: users[user.id] = {} users[user.id]['experience'] = 0 users[user.id]['level'] = 1
async def add_experience(users, user, exp): users[user.id]['experience'] += exp
async def level_up(users, user, channel): experience = users[user.id]['experience'] lvl_start = users[user.id]['level'] lvl_end = int(experience ** (1/4)) if lvl_start < lvl_end: await client.send_message(channel, '{} has achieved a slightly higher
level of {}, yay'.format(user.mention, lvl_end)) users[user.id]['level'] = lvl_end

2 Answers

You have your loads and dumps backwards, and you should be using load and dump instead (the s suffix means those functions work on strings.). load from a file, dump to a file

users = {}
@client.event
async def on_message(message): # No need to load the dictionary, our copy is the most correct await update_data(users, message.author) await add_experience(users, message.author, 5) await level_up(users, message.author, message.channel) with open('users.json', 'w') as f: json.dump(users, f)
@client.event
async def on_ready(): print ("Ready when you are xd") print ("I am running on " + client.user.name) print ("With the ID: " + client.user.id) # Load the json just once, when the bot starts global users with open('users.json') as f: try: users = json.load(f) except: users = {}

I had this error and I used the json.dump the wrong way around:

Correct way:

with open("Jello.json", "w") as json_file: json.dump(object_to_be_saved, json_file)

Wrong way:

I did it the other way around json.dump(json_file, object_to_be_saved)... Thanks Python.