Traceback (most recent call last): File "./topicbot.py", line 187, in listen() File "./topicbot.py", line 161, in listen get_topic(channel, user, time) File "./topicbot.py", line 61, in get_topic with open("topics_" + channel + ".txt", "r") as topics: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'topics_topicbot.txt'