Discord.py bot: How to make a bot respond to command only in certain circumstances?

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I'm making a Discord bot in Python, and I want to add such a function when the bot responds to the command only in certain circumstances.

For example:

Me: !quiz

Bot: Gives variants - !a; !b; !c

Me: Chooses variants and bot responds

  • The point is that if someone uses command !a; !b or !c before !quiz command is used, bot won't respond. Any ideas?
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3 Answers

You can use bot.wait_for() to wait for user response:

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def quiz(ctx):
channel, author = ctx.channel, ctx.message.author
await ctx.send('Choose one:\n!a;\n!b;\n!c;')

answer = await bot.wait_for(
    "message", 
    check=lambda x: x.content.startswith('!') and x.channel == channel and x.author == author
)
if answer.content.strip() == '!a':
    # here goes your logic
user_162088630

Going off what Mahrkeenerh said you can use wait_for() Below is an example:

@bot.command()
async def quiz(ctx):
    await ctx.send("A, B or C")

    try:
        msg = await bot.wait_for('message', check=lambda m: m.author == ctx.author and m.channel == ctx.channel, timeout=30.0)

    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
        await ctx.send("You took to long...")

    else:
        if msg.content == "A":
            await ctx.send("Correct")
        elif msg.content == "B":
            await ctx.send("Wrong")
        elif msg.content == "C":
            await ctx.send("Wrong")
        else:
            await ctx.send("Huh?")

We are sending a message and then waiting for a response, we are also checking to see if its the original author and the original channel. If so then we are checking if answer to see what the response is.

user_168855800

You can use wait_for():

Discord.py Make bot wait for reply

Or you could have a global variable (a flag - boolean) that would mark, if you have used the !quiz command. Then inside the answers command, check if this global variable is True, if so, respond (and reset it back to False), else ignore.

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