如何获取频道中所有消息的列表，然后从该列表中随机选择一条消息作为消息发送？

Question

I tried looking on StackOverflow for the answer to this question before and found this . I tried it out on Python 3.7 on discord.py rewrite 1.5.0. It should give me a random message from the channel I sent it in, and send it as a message.

So if there was a message among the many messages in the channel like:

Bring me pain, sir.

It would send that message, but the message chosen to be sent would be randomized each time the command would be run.

Here's my code: (the channel is anonymized for safety reasons)

channel = client.get_channel(123456789101112131)
messages = await channel.history(limit=200).flatten()
await ctx.send(f"{random.choice(messages)}")

Instead of a random message, it gives me a bunch of junk information relating to the guild/channel/author that sent the message. Which, while helpful, isn't what I'm going for.

If it helps, here's the gubbins (anonymized, however):

<Message id=42365698915833262 channel=<TextChannel id=123456789101112131 name='general' position=1 nsfw=False news=False category_id=None> type=<MessageType.default: 0> author=<Member id=481541758625098605 name='me' discriminator='4444' bot=False nick=None guild=<Guild id=111222333444555666 name='GUILDNAME' shard_id=None chunked=True member_count=4>> flags=<MessageFlags value=0>>

(sorry, it won't show correctly if I don't make it code)

I have no idea why it's doing this. I know I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know how to fix it. I'm an amateur programmer, so I might be missing something completely obvious. I'm using a client.command() for the code, in case you are wondering.

Answer 1

From a quick glance at the docs for discord.py, the history() method you're using looks like it returns a list of Messages . The docs for that type show that it has a content property , which sounds like what you want:

content

The actual contents of the message.

Your code is causing the whole Message object to be converted to a string, which is why you're seeing various parts of the internal representation ( category_id , discriminator , etc.). Try this instead:

await ctx.send(f"{random.choice(messages).content}")