[Bug]: AttributeError: “list’ object has no attribute ‘startswith’”

[hankp46]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues and checked the recent builds/commits

What happened?

Executed the following code:
import asyncio, json
from EdgeGPT.EdgeGPT import Chatbot, ConversationStyle

cookies = json.loads(open("/home/hank/bing_cookies_*.json", encoding="utf-8").read())

async def main():
bot = await Chatbot.create(cookies) # Passing cookies is "optional", as explained above
response = await bot.ask(prompt="Hello world", conversation_style=ConversationStyle.creative, simplify_response=True)
print(json.dumps(response, indent=2)) # Returns
"""
{
"text": str,
"author": str,
"sources": list[dict],
"sources_text": str,
"suggestions": list[str],
"messages_left": int
}
"""
await bot.close()

if name == "main":
asyncio.run(main())

When I ran it got following error:
File "/home/hank/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/EdgeGPT/conversation.py", line 86, in create
if proxy is not None and proxy.startswith("socks5h://"):
AttributeError: “list’ object has no attribute ‘startswith’”

Steps to reproduce the problem

run the script..

What should have happened?

should get print out

Version where the problem happens

Version: 0.12.1

What Python version are you running this with?

3.9

What is your operating system ?

No response

Command Line Arguments

no

Console logs

n/A

Additional information

No response

[SergeyHat]

поддержку прокси вырезали и попробуй установить питон поновее

[hankp46]

Thanks for replying: proxy support was cut out and try to install a newer python

The problem still exists after Installing Python 3.11.4.
This is in the EdgeGPT program which I don't know how to alter