TypeError: Consumer key must be string or bytes, not NoneType when authentication

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Planning to use variables to authorize tweepy with Twitter's API, but it shows the following:
TypeError: Consumer key must be string or bytes, not NoneType when authentication

Code below:

import tweepy
import os

consumera = os.environ.get('TWICK')
consumerb = os.environ.get('TWICS')
accessa = os.environ.get('TWIAT')
accessb = os.environ.get('TWIATS')

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumera, consumerb)
auth.set_access_token(accessa, accessb)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

status = api.update_status(status="Test tweet.")

I've tried using other authentication methods, such as:

consumera = os.environ.get('TWICK')
consumerb = os.environ.get('TWICS')
accessa = os.environ.get('TWIAT')
accessb = os.environ.get('TWIATS')

client = tweepy.Client(consumer_key=consumera,
                       consumer_secret=consumerb,
                       access_token=accessa,
                       access_token_secret=accessb
                       )

Any fix?

Additional info: I was planning to run it through GitHub actions but without exposing the keys in the source code - and I put all the keys as secrets, so it requires environmental access. Tested on Ubuntu (both local and under GitHub Actions), but no luck.

tweepy python
1 Answers

Perhaps a typo problem? NoneType is caused because one of the methods is receiving None, which is returned by get() if the environment variable does not exist.

Check if your environment variables' names are correct.

If your problem persists please indicate in which line the error occurs.

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