Counting discord bot python

Question

I have looked at others code and haven’t figured it out, what I want is something that will send a message whenever a number is sent, every time said number is sent the number gets increased by one. Here is my code:

counter = 0

if message.channel.startswith(counter):
    await message.channel.send("test, this will be changed later")
    counter +=1

What's going wrong? Please provide an error or what happens differently than expected. — 12944qwerty, Apr 19 '21 at 20:04
No errors are happening, the bot responds to me saying “1” (which it didnt before) but still doesnt do anything for me saying 2, 3 or any of that. Oh yea, I also changed counter = 0 to counter = 1 — Dank Darko, Apr 20 '21 at 06:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '21 at 08:15

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You might need to convert to string first....

counter = 0

if message.channel.startswith(str(counter)):
    await message.channel.send("test, this will be changed later")
    counter += 1

answered Apr 19 '21 at 08:15

Gideon Weiss

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That didnt do anything sadly – Dank Darko Apr 19 '21 at 22:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 12:49

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What does this return to the channel?

counter = 0

await channel.send(f'Start waiting for counter: {counter}')

if message.channel.startswith(str(counter)):
    counter += 1
    await channel.send(f'waiting for new counter: {counter}')

answered Apr 20 '21 at 12:49

IODEV

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 20 '21 at 15:12

Ok, now i know what your problem is. You're using discord.py and everytime when you write a message you trigger the event onMessage so you create everytime a new Variable named "counter" with 0 and then you increase it to 1 but the counter int is never saved. A fix for this is some kind of data source. You could try to save the number everytime e.g. in a txt file. That should make it work (Code):

counter = 0

# What the Message should start with
if message.content.startswith('Text'):
    # Try to read the file, if it is not existing create it with 0 as number in it.
    try:
        f = open("counter.txt", "r")
        # Set the content of the text file as counter int
        counter = int(f.readline())
    except:
        f = open("counter.txt", "a")
        f.write(str(0))

    # Add a Number to the Counter
    counter += 1
    # Overwrite the current Number with the New Number
    f = open("counter.txt", "w")
    f.write(str(counter))

    # Send a Message with a certain String (Test! in this case and the Int 
    # that got counted up)
    await message.channel.send('Test! ' + str(counter))

well that works, BUT no matter what command i do, even if its just a simple respond to a message thing i always get this error at the end of the if statement: Unindent does not match any other indentation level — Dank Darko, Apr 20 '21 at 18:43
Could it be that your def Function is not async? You may have to put a `async` before the function and when you're sending a Message you need to put an `await` before it. — mlhmz, Apr 20 '21 at 20:14
Im pretty sure it is async, my code matches what your saying — Dank Darko, Apr 21 '21 at 06:15
just found the error, one line in my code was a space off which messed up my code only like 30 lines later, weird — Dank Darko, Apr 21 '21 at 06:38

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 19 '21 at 07:48

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+= doesnt work in Python, use "var = var + 1" instead

answered Apr 19 '21 at 07:48

mlhmz

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We can use ```+=```, read more here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63195804/12244203 – Mehdi Mostafavi Apr 19 '21 at 07:52
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Yes it does: https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/operators/addition_assignment.html – IODEV Apr 19 '21 at 08:07
Oh yeah, i got confused with += and ++. i guess i meant ++ doesnt work in Python – mlhmz Apr 20 '21 at 14:33

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