'Wit' object has no attribute 'message'

Question

Just trying to experiment with Wit.ai & Python but getting the following error. What am I doing wrong here??

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python27/mx1.py", line 7, in <module>
resp = client.message(my_message)
AttributeError: 'Wit' object has no attribute 'message'

Code:

from wit import Wit
access_token='B3GHXHLTXIASO7S4KY7UC65LMSTCDEHK'
client = Wit(access_token)
my_message='who are you?'
resp = client.message(my_message)
print(resp)

Your example is working just fine for me (response contains `I am Jarvis`), but I'm on Linux. Could you tell us how exactly did you install the Wit library? — randomir, Jul 20 '17 at 14:19
I am running Python 2.7 on Win10. I installed using "pip install pywit". — user3289968, Jul 20 '17 at 20:28
The [docs](https://github.com/wit-ai/pywit#install) say `pip install wit`. — randomir, Jul 20 '17 at 20:30

randomir · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-20T20:44:55.397

So, it seems like you're using an older (actually unofficial) version of the Python pywit package, last updated on 2015-11-07 (version 0.4.0).

You should remove the pywit package and install wit, just like they say in the docs/install section:

pip uninstall pywit
pip install wit

Just for completeness, if you look inside the wit.py of your older pywit package, inside your python2.7/site-packages/wit/wit.py, you'll see the definition of old Wit class, with a get_message() method instead of the current message(). So, in the pywit, your code will run if you say:

resp = client.get_message(my_message)

instead of

resp = client.message(my_message)

But you should really switch to the current (official) version.

'Wit' object has no attribute 'message'

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