Multi tool use

Why does on_message stop commands from working?

Basically, everything appears to work fine and start up, but for some reason I can't call any of the commands. I've been looking around for easily an hour now and looking at examples/watching videos and I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong. Code below:

import discord
import asyncio
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = '-')
@bot.event
async def on_ready():
print('Logged in as')
print(bot.user.name)
print(bot.user.id)
print('------')

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
if message.content.startswith('-debug'):
await message.channel.send('d')

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def ping(ctx):
await ctx.channel.send('Pong!')

@bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def add(ctx, *, arg):
await ctx.send(arg)


The debug output I have in on_message actually does work and responds, and the whole bot runs wihout any exceptions, but it just won't call the commands.

1 Answer
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From the rewrite documentation:

Overriding the default provided on_message forbids any extra commands from running. To fix this, add a bot.process_commands(message) line at the end of your on_message. For example:

on_message

bot.process_commands(message)

on_message

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
# do some extra stuff here

await bot.process_commands(message)


If you have questions about the discord.ext.commands extension, the rewrite documentation is the place to check. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any effort to write equivalent documentation for the async branch.

discord.ext.commands

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