🔒 Cancelling current bot task

[rare flame]

So i have a code

                        if not variable:
                                await msg.channel.send("There are missing data... please wait")
                                def check(m, user):
                                        return user == msg.author.id and m.channel == msg.channel
                                if not status:
                                        await msg.channel.send("What would u like as a nickname?")
                                        reply = await bot.wait_for("message", timeout=60.0, check = check())
                                        try:
                                                await c.execute("INSERT INTO status(id, lvl, hp, hpr, xp, xpr, name, race, role, fighting_style, bal), VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)", (msg.author.id, 1, 10,10, 0, 15, reply.content, ))
                                        except asyncio.Timeout:
                                                await msg.channel.send("You took to long.")
                                                

If you see an error you dont need to correct, i havent run the program yet.

But i want to know if there's a way i can cancel the task after the timeout, so they have to try again.

[urban blade]

@rare flame

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[wispy echo]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ext/commands/api.html#discord.ext.commands.Bot.wait_for

Check the docs for the function, it has examples

If the timeout is reached, an error is raised, which you can catch and handle

[oak fog]

You probably want an async with asyncio.timeout(...): ...

[rare flame]

I dont mean the statement alone, i want it to stop the task completely without stopping the whole on_message event.

[oak fog]

Which task do you want to cancel?

Show the whole async def

[wispy echo]

I don't understand then. You said "cancel the task after the timeout, so they have to try again", and your timeout is on the wait_for method

!paste

[urban blade]

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[oak fog]

except asyncio.Timeout doesn't work

It's not an Exception class

You need except TimeoutError

[wispy echo]

Why would the SQL query timing out mean that the user took too long?

[rare flame]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/CBXIVQMA6ZEROI2RXHHT3GJ7ZI

[rare flame]

It isnt finished, I still need to add the rest, but i want it to stop inserting the users data if the user doesnt answer after a period of time.

[rare flame]

ohh

alr thanks

[narrow cloak]

@rare flame which module are you using for sql?

[rare flame]

aiosqlite

[wispy echo]

You're not going to insert anything in the first place until the user replies or the waiting times out. You're awaiting wait_for, meaning you're yielding control back to the event loop until you get a result

You're not going to continue the function while waiting for the user to respond

[narrow cloak]

put the wait_for part in the try block

and execute part in else

[rare flame]

ohhhh, Sorry my brain was scattered writing the code, thats why i said if there's errors Ill figure it out

either way thanks for pointing that out

[rare flame]

i see

[narrow cloak]

problem solved, execute wont be executed if there is an error executed

[rare flame]

Yh, I was thinking that after I asked.. sorry for the stupid question i asked

I always assume it would continue the function even if the error propped

[narrow cloak]

no no thats okay, we learn from our mistakes

[rare flame]

I'm stupid bruh, but ill learn

[rare flame]

also i meant with the try statement alone, i dont use it much so i just assume, rarelyy use it

[narrow cloak]

dw dw, we all are stupid, because we are humans afterall

[rare flame]

yh cuz humans arn't perfect, but with some people including myself i wonder how do we survive.

either way, thanks for the help appreciate it.

[urban blade]

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