I'm running a discord.py bot and I want to be able to send messages through the IDLE console. How can I do this without stopping the bot's other actions? I've checked out asyncio and found no way through. I'm looking for something like this:
async def some_command():
#actions
if input is given to the console:
#another action
I've already tried pygame with no results but I can also try any other suggestions with pygame.
You can use aioconsole. You can then create a background task that asynchronously waits for input from console.
Example for async version:
from discord.ext import commands
import aioconsole
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')
@client.command()
async def ping():
await client.say('Pong')
async def background_task():
await client.wait_until_ready()
channel = client.get_channel('123456') # channel ID to send goes here
while not client.is_closed:
console_input = await aioconsole.ainput("Input to send to channel: ")
await client.send_message(channel, console_input)
client.loop.create_task(background_task())
client.run('token')
Example for rewrite version:
from discord.ext import commands
import aioconsole
client = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')
@client.command()
async def ping(ctx):
await ctx.send('Pong')
async def background_task():
await client.wait_until_ready()
channel = client.get_channel(123456) # channel ID to send goes here
while not client.is_closed():
console_input = await aioconsole.ainput("Input to send to channel: ")
await channel.send(console_input)
client.loop.create_task(background_task())
client.run('token')
