# AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'fetch'

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**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/attributeerror-str-object-has-no-attribute-fetch/7289 "2021-02-20T14:46:27Z")\
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Somewhere in your code, I’m _guessing_ that you have a line like this:

```
db = 'path/to/my/database.db'

```

You need to change it to

db = Database(‘path/to/my/database.db’)

But you really should post the full traceback of the error.

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