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IAmAHuman
IAmAHuman

Reputation: 309

(discord.py) What is the correct way of checking if a message contains an element from a list?

I'm trying to make a profanity filter for my bot. I allowed server admins to make their own list of bad words which my bot uses for their server. In the on_message function I used this code to check if a user's message contains a word from the filter:

file = open(f"configs/antiswearvalues/customantiswear/{message.guild.id}.txt")

res = [ele for ele in file.read() if (ele in message.content)]

if bool(res):
    await message.channel.send("you did a bad. time for the boot.")

The problem is the bot still said you did a bad. time for the boot. even if the message contained a snippet from the elements and not an entire element.

So if the list was ['omg', 'crap', 'hell'], the bot would still warn the user if their message contained h or cr because hell and crap contain those.

My question is: How can I make my bot properly check if a user's message contains an element from a list?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4490

Answers (1)

MrSpaar
MrSpaar

Reputation: 3994

You should consider using json. Getting a word blacklist will be way easier than parsing a txt file without using any library:

Your json file (eg. blacklist.json):

['omg', 'crap', 'hell']

Your python code:

from json import loads

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    with open("blacklist.json", "r"):
        data = loads(file.read())
    for word in data:
        if word in message.content:
            await message.channel.send("you did a bad. time for the boot.")
    return

Your code isn't working as intended because you didn't parsed your file data, you were exploring a string, not a list.

Upvotes: 3

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