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pythonarrayslistarraylistdiscord.py
Cohen
Cohen

Reputation: 2415

How can I get Python to read a list from a .txt document for my Discord bot

wordfilter = ["badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword"]```


@client.listen('on_message')
async def msgfilter(message, member: discord.Member = None):
    global messageserver
    messageserver += 1

    for word in wordfilter:
        if message.content.count(word) > 0:
            await message.channel.purge(limit=1)

Is my code but I recently updated the filter to match derogative use of words in every language for my Discord bot. It has over 10000+ lines in a list like this:

wordfilter = ["badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword"]

but for thousands or words from 105+ languages. I have tried to put this into my main python file as it is a custom bot for my server and I want members not be able to bypass the filter in anyway possible. Once I copied the list into a the same file python file, it crashed and makes the py document unresponsive and slow to save. It works well in a txt file but how can I get the python file to get the same achievement from accessing the words from another file and filtering the way I have done it. Please let me know soon! Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (2)

Thierry Lathuille
Thierry Lathuille

Reputation: 24289

Your code is inefficient because you iterate on your list of badwords, and for each iteration again on the message (for count), which makes it O(length of words list * length of message).

You should use sets: a set of your badwords

wordfilter = {"badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword", "badword"}

and a set of the word in your message:

words = set(message.content.split())

Testing if the message contains a bad word is then just:

if not words.isdisjoint(wordfilter):
    # there is a badword in your message

which will be much more efficient.

Another option would be to test if any word of the message is part of the set, with:

words = message.content.split()
if any(word in wordfilter for word in words):
    # there is a badword in your message

Testing if an item is in a set is just O(1), and this would stop as soon as a bad word is found.

You should test and compare.

Upvotes: 1

Yash Makan
Yash Makan

Reputation: 764

Sample.txt

badword1
badword2
badword3
...
badwordn

Python Code:

with open("Sample.txt","r") as f:
    bad_words=f.readlines()
print("length of all bad words are ",len(bad_words))

Upvotes: 1

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