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The first thing someone will ask when someone sees this method is "Why doesn't `send` just accept `Attachment`?". This question is fair but it has an issue: exception propagation becomes confusing. When we save a file and write it to memory an HTTP request is sent similar to other API calls. Like all HTTP requests, these can fail. Since these requests denote failure using HTTPException, if it were to originate within `send` then it becomes confusing to know whether the attachment saving itself failed or whether the sending failed. For that reason, and to keep in-line with only 1 type of HTTP call per method, it doesn't make sense for `send` to support `Attachment`.
discord.py
==========
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:target: https://discord.gg/r3sSKJJ
:alt: Discord server invite
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A modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python.
Key Features
-------------
- Modern Pythonic API using ``async`` and ``await``.
- Proper rate limit handling.
- 100% coverage of the supported Discord API.
- Optimised in both speed and memory.
Installing
----------
**Python 3.5.3 or higher is required**
To install the library without full voice support, you can just run the following command:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U discord.py
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U discord.py
Otherwise to get voice support you should run the following command:
.. code:: sh
# Linux/macOS
python3 -m pip install -U discord.py[voice]
# Windows
py -3 -m pip install -U discord.py[voice]
To install the development version, do the following:
.. code:: sh
$ git clone https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py
$ cd discord.py
$ python3 -m pip install -U .[voice]
Optional Packages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* PyNaCl (for voice support)
Please note that on Linux installing voice you must install the following packages via your favourite package manager (e.g. ``apt``, ``yum``, etc) before running the above commands:
* libffi-dev (or ``libffi-devel`` on some systems)
* python-dev (e.g. ``python3.6-dev`` for Python 3.6)
Quick Example
--------------
.. code:: py
import discord
class MyClient(discord.Client):
async def on_ready(self):
print('Logged on as', self.user)
async def on_message(self, message):
# don't respond to ourselves
if message.author == self.user:
return
if message.content == 'ping':
await message.channel.send('pong')
client = MyClient()
client.run('token')
Bot Example
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code:: py
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='>')
@bot.command()
async def ping(ctx):
await ctx.send('pong')
bot.run('token')
You can find more examples in the examples directory.
Links
------
- `Documentation <https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`_
- `Official Discord Server <https://discord.gg/r3sSKJJ>`_
- `Discord API <https://discord.gg/discord-api>`_