(discord.py) How can I make my bot randomly reply to DMs?

Question

For example, when someone DMs my bot, it says "hello" or "why are you trying to DM a bot..?" I tried this with this code:

@client.event
async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
    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))

and it worked. But, my commands like "m.help" and "m?about" stopped working. What is the proper way of doing this?

Answer 1

When you add an on_message event, you need to process the commands:

@client.event
async def on_message(message): # no need to define the type
    await client.process_commands(message)
    # rest of the code here

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References:

• Bot.process_commands() - "Without this coroutine, none of the commands will be triggered. If you choose to override the on_message() event, then you should invoke this coroutine as well."
• on_message