I'm building a Discord bot. The bot should store some information into some internal variables to be accessed at a later time. To do so I'm structuring it as a class (as opposed to many examples where the commands are outside a class definition). However, I discovered that when you use the @commands.command(name='test') decorator, the method becomes a kind of "static" method and no longer receives the object as first input. Given this, is there any way I can access class properties (such as an_instance_property in the example below) and/or class methods (such as a_class_method in the example below)? If this is the wrong approach, what could be a better approach for a bot with an internal state? import discord from discord.ext import commands with open('TOKEN', 'r') as f: TOKEN = f.read() class mybot(commands.Bot): def __init__(self): intents = discord.Intents.default() super().__init__(command_prefix="!", intents=intents) self.add_command(self.test) self.an_instance_property = [] # <---- def a_class_method(x): # <---- return x @commands.command(name='test') async def test(ctx, *args): # How can I access self.an_instance_property from here? # How can I call self.a_class_method from here? return bot = mybot() bot.run(TOKEN) Continue reading...
