telethon: filtering events by the type of the chats they are coming from

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i wanna filter the events.newMessage to fire only when messages are coming from private chats. but i don't want to put all chat ids in chats list argument of the event

do you have any ideas ?

@client.on(events.NewMessage)
async def my_event_handler(event):
    if 'hello' in event.raw_text:
        await client.delete_messages(await event.get_chat(), event.id)

in the example above think i a want to delete all messages coming from private chats ( everyone of them )

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1 Answers

NewMessage events implement the ChatGetter class so you can use the following :

event.is_private → User

event.is_group → Chat and Channel (megagroup flag set)

event.is_channel → Channel

Also for a more of a complete answer 

any private = is_private
any group = is_group
any channel = is_channel
only small groups = is_group and not is_channel
only mega groups = is_group and is_channel
only broadcast channels = not is_group and is_channel
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