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pythondiscorddiscord.py
Ben Keez
Ben Keez

Reputation: 57

The 'Asyncio' event loop isn't working [Discord PY]

I've started to try coding a discord bot but it was cut short when setting a prefix and events wouldn't work. It just displays an error message that says 'the command "hello" can not be found'.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
import asyncio

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix="*" ,status=discord.Status.idle, activity=discord.Game("Starting up..."))

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.do_not_disturb, activity=discord.Game("Preparing Puzzle Event"))
    print("Bot is running.")
@client.event
async def hello(ctx):
  await ctx.send("Hi")

client.run('[The token]')

I know that the token is valid as I've ran it before without assigning a prefix and using 'async'.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (1)

effprime
effprime

Reputation: 578

@client.event
async def hello(ctx):
  await ctx.send("Hi")

This won't work because hello is not a built-in event. See: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord-api-events

What you want is a command probably

@client.command()
async def hello(ctx):
  await ctx.send("Hi")

This registers the bot to respond to the command .hello assuming . is your prefix

Upvotes: 1

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