[Python] Why does it say "Improper token has been passed" when trying to use discord.py to...

Whenever I try to run my code, it tells me it is logging in, then that it found a user agent, after which it offers me an error. Whenever I tried using the exact same code on a normal discord account it worked perfectly fine, but I cannot get it to work while using an official discord application that I made.

Below is my code


import discord
from discord.ext import commands
# in player.py I have commented out import audioop in line 28


prefix = ["Yombot, ", "YomBot, ", "Yb, ", "YB, "]


token = "token from bot tab in discord developer portal"
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix=prefix, bot=True)


@client.event
async def on_ready():
print(f'Yombot has connected to Discord!')


client.run(token)


above is what I tried


What I expected: For the bot to log in and be operational


What ended up happening: I got the error(s)

E:\yombot\venv\Scripts\python.exe E:\yombot\main.py
2025-02-10 00:23:55 INFO discord.client Logging in using static token.
2025-02-10 00:23:56 INFO discord.http Found user agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36, build number 366955.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 994, in static_login
data = await self.get_me()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 838, in request
raise HTTPException(response, data)
discord.errors.HTTPException: 401 Unauthorized (error code: 0): 401: Unauthorized

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "E:\yombot\main.py", line 19, in <module>
client.run(token)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 938, in run
asyncio.run(runner())
~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_3.13.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 195, in run
return runner.run(main)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_3.13.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 118, in run
return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_3.13.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\Lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 725, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 927, in runner
await self.start(token, reconnect=reconnect)
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 857, in start
await self.login(token)
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\client.py", line 698, in login
data = await state.http.static_login(token.strip())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.13_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python313\site-packages\discord\http.py", line 998, in static_login
raise LoginFailure('Improper token has been passed') from exc
discord.errors.LoginFailure: Improper token has been passed

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