Calling a command from another command discord.py

Question

I'm using discord.py and wanted to call a command from another command. There are many questions like that in stack overflow but the difference in mine is that I don't want the command that is going to be called to be available for the user to call.

For Example:

Let's say that I have an animals category and have two commands in that category such as (jokes, pictures) as an example. Then if the command prefix was ! .

The user would type !animals joke or !animals pictures .

This should return the desired results.

I thought I could do that by:

animals.py:

@commands.command
async def animals(self, ctx, com_name):
    await ctx.invoke(self.bot.get_command(com_name))

jokes.py

@commands.command
async def joke(self, ctx):
   await ctx.send('a random joke')

Now if the user types !animals joke it will work but they would then be able to type !joke and that would also work. How could I only let the command be called if the category is also present.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create an animals Group and then have joke be a subcommand:

@commands.group()
async def animals(self, ctx):
    pass

@animals.command()
async def joke(self, ctx):
   await ctx.send('a random joke')

Another option would be adding a check on joke that is always false

fail = commands.check(lambda ctx: False)

@fail
@commands.command()
async def joke(self, ctx):
   await ctx.send('a random joke')