@JonB got it...thanks for the reply! I figured something like that was the reason...that these were not functions in any sense which could be "called". I can use one of a few ways I've found to do what I need in the cases I've seen.

def hasdupelems(l): return len(l) != len(set(l)) print(hasdupelems(['ab', 'cd', 'ab', 'ef'])) print(hasdupelems(['ab', 'cd', 'ef']))

See https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/5011/discord-py-asyncio-not-working

Make sure asyncio does not exist in site-packages-3 or site-packages

Here's simple video and __main__ docs. As @Amegon already said, run script via play button.

P.S. There's no shell, but there's StaSh.