So ive googled and tried to change my code based on the other answers ive found, but i keep getting that error code.

Here is my code:

def genre_find(user_id):
    global response_user_id
    global response
    global genreif
    if response_user_id != user_id:
        response = requests.get('https://www.fanfiction.net/u/{}'.format(user_id))
        response_user_id = user_id
        sleep(randint(3, 4))
    if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
        soup = bs(response.text, 'html.parser')
        user_info = soup.select("#content_wrapper_inner table table tr td")
        my_stories = soup.select("div.mystories")
        genre = None
        for story in my_stories:
            genre = story.find_all("div")[-1].text.split(" - ")[3]
           return genre
        genreif = genre.startswith('Chap')
    return genreif

Error: (line 17 here)

  File "test_two.py", line 74, in <module>
user_write_story_data = get_user_information(user_id)
File "test_two.py", line 42, in get_user_information
genre_find(user_id)
File "test_two.py", line 34, in genre_find
genreif = genre.startswith('Chap')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

I've been working on setting up a "simple" Flask app with a cloud-hosted postgres database.

My app's config.py file includes the following code:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('dbs_url')
  if os.environ.get('dbs_url').startswith('postgres') :
      SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('dbs_url').replace('postgres', 'postgresql')

Long story short, this is included because ElephantSQL starts their database URLs with "postgres" while SQLAlchemy expects them to begin with "postgresql".

Generally speaking this has worked just fine.

Now, though, I'm in a situation where I need to edit a local database entry directly (I added a new column to an existing table). As far as I know I need to enter Python's shell and import the database model that represents the offending table, like >>> from [app] import [Class]. Apparently doing that involves pulling from the config.py file somehow, because when I try importing a model I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\colby\coding_temple\assignments\week_5\01\homework\app\
  from config import Conf
 File "C:\Users\colby\coding_temple\assignments\week_5\01\homework\conf
  class Conf:
 File "C:\Users\colby\coding_temple\assignments\week_5\01\homework\conf
  if os.environ.get('dbs_url').startswith('postgres'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

Regardless of whether what I'm doing makes any sense (I'm sure it doesn't), I'd like to re-write this in a way that doesn't cause this error.

Edit: I was indeed doing something that didn't make any sense. I didn't need to try this at all, just delete a row from my ElephantSQL database. Not sure why I thought there was something locally