🔒 Discord bot commands class

[sonic hamlet]

Hi guys, how do you add a class containing commands into a bot inheriting from commands.Bot? For example

class MyBotCog(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
        self.bot = bot

    @commands.command(name='roll')
    async def roll(self, ctx: commands.Context):
        print("rolling...")
        random_number = str(random.randint(1, 6))
        await ctx.send(random_number)

when I try to add it into the MyBot class

class MyBot(commands.Bot):
    def __init__(self, command_prefix, intents):
        super().__init__(command_prefix, intents=intents)
        self.add_cog(MyBotCog(self))  # <--- This line

      # Rest of implementation ...

and run the bot with the commnd prefix !, I get:
discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "roll" is not found
when I run !roll on Discord

Thanks for the help!

[slate agate]

@sonic hamlet

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[strong cove]

you need to await self.add_cog(...)

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.add_cog

[slate agate]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.add\_cog

await add_cog(cog, /, *, override=False, guild=..., guilds=...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Adds a “cog” to the bot.

A cog is a class that has its own event listeners and commands.

If the cog is a [`app_commands.Group`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.Group) then it is added to the bot’s [`CommandTree`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree) as well.

Note

Exceptions raised inside a [`Cog`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Cog)’s [`cog_load()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Cog.cog_load) method will be propagated to the caller...

[sonic hamlet]

Thanks for the reply. I tried that, but i get

SyntaxError: 'await' outside async function

and also vscode adds a red underline to that line of code

[strong cove]

oh yes, you won't be able to do that in the __init__

!d discord.ext.commands.Bot.setup_hook

[slate agate]

discord.ext.commands.Bot.setup\_hook

await setup_hook()```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

A coroutine to be called to setup the bot, by default this is blank.

To perform asynchronous setup after the bot is logged in but before it has connected to the Websocket, overwrite this coroutine.

This is only called once, in [`login()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.login), and will be called before any events are dispatched, making it a better solution than doing such setup in the [`on_ready()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.on_ready) event.

Warning

Since this is called *before* the websocket connection is made therefore anything that waits for the websocket will deadlock, this includes things like [`wait_for()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.wait_for) and [`wait_until_ready()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.wait_until_ready)...

[strong cove]

you can do it in here ^

[sonic hamlet]

it worked! i created a setup_hook method and the bot is working with commands

thanks a lot!

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