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Python

Aaron Ooi
Aaron Ooi
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Posted by Aaron Ooi
Aaron Ooi
6,555 Points

peewee.DatabaseError: file is not a database when running diary.py file

I am having trouble figuring it out why my code is not running and returning this error on my terminal?

File "/home/aaron/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/peewee.py", line 2438, in exit reraise(new_type, new_type(*exc_args), traceback) File "/home/aaron/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/peewee.py", line 177, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/home/aaron/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/peewee.py", line 2640, in execute_sql cursor.execute(sql, params or ()) peewee.DatabaseError: file is not a database