(discord.py) 如何在 DM 中显示机器人输入指示器

Question

I heard that ctx.typing() exists but I want my bot to display the indicator in DMs. Here is my code so far:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    await client.process_commands(message)
    # i want the bot to display 'typing...' for 1 second
    if message.guild is None and not message.author.bot:
        with open('dmresponses.txt') as input_file:
            long_list = [line.strip() for line in input_file]
        await message.author.send(random.choice(long_list))

How can I implement this?

Answer 1

This can be achieved with the typing() context manager:

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    await client.process_commands(message)
    if message.guild is None and not message.author.bot:
        async with message.channel.typing():
            with open("dmresponses.txt") as input_file: # do stuff inside
                long_list = [line.strip() for lin in input_file]
        await message.author.send(random.choice(long_list)) # what to do after typing

And if you want to emphasize the typing duration, you can include a delay by using asyncio.sleep() :

import asyncio # required for the sleeping

async with message.channel.typing():
    await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
    # some stuff
await message.channel.send("Done!")

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References:

• Context managers in Python
• Messageable.typing() - Messageable is somewhere that you can send a message (Text channel, DM, group chat etc.). message.channel is a discord.TextChannel object
• abc.Messageable
• discord.TextChannel
• asyncio.sleep()