Think I broke my Replit DB, any way to reset it?

[JimmyPronto]

Hi guys,

As I said in the title, I think I may have borked by db and I want to factory reset it.
I’ve tried db.clear() and

for key in db:    
    del db[key]

But neither seem to fix the issue. I just want to make sure those would actually reset in the case of a broken db. I’m just getting an error in the console of my Flask app that is the name of the key in question, and nothing else.
error:<key name>

I’m pretty sure it’s a borked-db issue because I rolled back the repo and I am getting the exact same error.

I found a thread from 2 years ago where people were saying that if you accidentally enter a special character into your db, that you can break it and it requires forking your repo to reset the db. I would hope that isn’t still an issue 2 years on. It’s possible something like this happened when I was trying to manually edit keys and values.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Jimmy

[NateDhaliwal]

@JimmyPronto

for key in db:    
    del db[key]

This would not work. It will delete the keys 1, 2, 3, etc, not the name of the key. The variable ‘key’ is merely a variable, not the actual keys.

If you want to really delete the keys, do this:

print(db.keys()) #Lists the keys

Then, you can delete the db keys, knowing what they are.

[QwertyQwerty88]

@NateDhaliwal

This would not work. It will delete the keys 1, 2, 3, etc, not the name of the key. The variable ‘key’ is merely a variable, not the actual keys.

Uh, yes it would? If OP did del key then it would do what you described…

[NateDhaliwal]

Well, I didn’t test it, just typing out what I thought would be correct .
I mean, my method would work riight…?

[JimmyPronto]

So what I did should have worked?

[QwertyQwerty88]

Yes, both methods you tried should have worked.

[Firepup650]

Try (in Shell) running:

replit nuke --i-am-sure

[python660]

Shell: please input nuclear launch codes

[JimmyPronto]

Is there some more complete way to reset or reinitialize it?

[SalladShooter]

@JimmyPronto use Firepup650’s post in the Shell.

@Firepup650

replit nuke --i-am-sure

I have used it before and it works perfectly fine.

[JimmyPronto]

I just want to reset the database, I don’t want to lose all of my code.

[SalladShooter]

@JimmyPronto it doesn’t remove your code it just resets your db (Idk why that is the thing to reset it though).

[JimmyPronto]

Ok thank you, and thanks to @Firepup650

[SalladShooter]

@JimmyPronto if it works mark Firepup650’s post as the solution.

[JimmyPronto]

That did indeed reset the db, but it didn’t fix the problem I was encountering.
For the record, and I don’t know if this will help anyone, but my issue was that when I queried a key that didn’t exist, instead of the database returning None, it was raising an exception (unhandled). I just got an error that was the name of the key, but it wasn’t obvious to me what the problem was, because I thought that the key was being created if it didn’t already exist. Obviously that process was being short circuited.