🔒 How to be correctly organised ?

[regal drum]

Hello everyone!

I'm totally new to Python. I did learned the basics and now trying to learn and understand about making a Discord bot.

I was wondering if there's a way to be organised with the bot commands and stuff instead of writing them all in the main file?

Can I have, say a main.py file that contain the main script to log the bot in, get the token and intents, etc... and then another file like commands.py?

If so, how should I link both file so the bot know it have to go to commands.py to use them when triggered?

I would like to have a good folder structure so it's easier for me to navigate through my scripts instead of having everything in one file... Unless it's a bad idea to separate stuffs?

Maybe something like :

my_discord_bot/
├── .env
├── main.py
├── modules/
│   ├── commands.py
│   ├── reactions.py
│   ├── moderation.py

tell me if I wasn't clear enough. English isn't my main language.

Thanks for your help!

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@regal drum

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[regal drum]

How to be correctly organised ?

[wanton solstice]

i may be incorect on this for im new aswell but from the sound of it you may want to create your own variable with its own deffinition for example def main() # go down one line and press tab then code then you should be able to transfer that data to another place by calling main()

leme make an example i feel like i did not explain that welll

[merry viper]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/cogs.html

[wanton solstice]

def main():
print("Hello, world")
main()

[regal drum]

Oh yeah that's a good idea, thanks! Shouldn't it be combined with import?

[regal drum]

Will read right now, thanks

[wanton solstice]

i am not sure but import is importing something from somewhere else so if your just moving it to another code screen you should not need to import it as lomg as its on the same code software

[regal drum]

Oh so if it's in the same workspace I don't need to import? Make sense

[wanton solstice]

yeah

[merry viper]

Yeah. so you can create a file per cog, and then import all the cogs in your main file

[wanton solstice]

sheesh day 4 of coding and i feel like a professiona;

[regal drum]

Yeah that's what I'm getting. I guess that's better so I don't have everything in the same file. What a mess lol

[regal drum]

A true master here

[wanton solstice]

how do you make a new file lol

[regal drum]

Which IDE are you using?

[wanton solstice]

pycharm

[regal drum]

Oh

Dunno sorry I use VSCode... Can't you simply right click in your workspace > New file?

[wanton solstice]

leme try

im dumb yes ty your right 🤣

[regal drum]

haha

Alright I got what I needed. Thanks y'all!

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