🔒 Starting a discord bot help

[noble lake]

Hello! I am starting a Gacha discord bot and need help with the early stages of coding.
I created the bot, and it is in my guild; I am unsure how to access the coding part and start coding. I've been told to download a few programs through different websites, but I'm unsure of the best route.

[merry niche]

@noble lake

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[gleaming frost]

just get python from python.org and start coding after installing discord.py

look up a few tutorials or something

[earnest pebble]

There are a few examples in the discord.py github repo

[noble lake]

ahhh okok how do i install discord.py i go to the website and its just a table of contents in unsure of where to go on the website its really confusing

[earnest pebble]

https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/tree/master/examples/
there is also a discord.py discord server you can join

you can use pip install discord.py

[noble lake]

where do i put that? in the search bar?

[gleaming frost]

terminal

[merry niche]

discord v2.3.2

A mirror package for discord.py. Please install that instead.

Released on <t:1691703907:D>.

discord.py v2.5.2

A Python wrapper for the Discord API

Released on <t:1741137329:D>.

[gleaming frost]

ye that one

cant delete other one for some stupid reason

[noble lake]

okok also I am on a macbook if that changes anything?

[earnest pebble]

nope it should work on mac also

[noble lake]

okok where would the terminal be

[earnest pebble]

open spotlight and type in Terminal

(assuming you have python installed)

[noble lake]

i do not yet! where is the download link

[gleaming frost]

command space type terminal

[gleaming frost]

at python.org

[earnest pebble]

lol

[gleaming frost]

no clue what spotlight is

[earnest pebble]

https://www.python.org/downloads/

[earnest pebble]

isn't spotlight command space

[gleaming frost]

i wish i knew the answer to that

[earnest pebble]

im just surprised i remembered the name for that feature in the first place

[noble lake]

i found it!!

and i downloaded python

[earnest pebble]

that's gud
Now you should be able to use the python command in the Terminal

[noble lake]

okok

[earnest pebble]

you may have to reopen your terminal

[noble lake]

okay athats real

[earnest pebble]

otherwise-
have you tried turning it off and on again

[noble lake]

okok then ill brb if i do this
pip install discord.py
should it be doing something when i type that

[earnest pebble]

what does it say when you type it?

[noble lake]

command not found

[earnest pebble]

you can try prefixing python -m before it:

python -m pip install discord.py

[noble lake]

it says command not found python

let me try shutting down and coming back

[earnest pebble]

sanity check,
did you only download python, or did you also actually launch the installer

[noble lake]

that would be helpful

[earnest pebble]

.. :P

[noble lake]

do i have to do anything here

[earnest pebble]

no i think that's good

default settings i suppose

[noble lake]

yes yes should be fine

i opened it and it still says command not found

should i try shutting it down now?

[earnest pebble]

you can try python3 as command

[noble lake]

opkok

[earnest pebble]

otherwise you can indeed try restarting

[noble lake]

IT WORKED THANK YOU

okok it says this

[earnest pebble]

yeah that's good

click ctrl+z to exit the python interpreter

[noble lake]

okok

[earnest pebble]

then run python3 -m pip install python.py

oh wait

discord.py*

[noble lake]

okokok

ITS WORKING YAY

[earnest pebble]

:D

[noble lake]

its installed, now am i able to start with basic commands or do i have more steps before that

[earnest pebble]

Here is a python resource for getting Python working on Mac, if you have any further questions later on
https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html

[noble lake]

thank you so much!!!! uyou were such a big help thank you for being patient with me

[earnest pebble]

you are able to use python on your device now.
You have to start/launch python files using python3 file.py

:))

[noble lake]

okokok!! thank you!!

you can close this now

[earnest pebble]

You can use the examples listed on the github repository for more info

you can use !close to close the thread

[noble lake]

ohhh oKOKOK THANK YOU

[noble lake]

okok!!! thank you

!close

[merry niche]

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