#🔒 Why is there a help command eventho I never declared it?

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jaunty kettle
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I think a help command is set to be by default when you make a cog. How can I ammend it?

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jaunty kettle
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This is my file structure

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steady dagger
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It's one of the built-ins. Same as list, str, int, tuple, open.

jaunty kettle
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I ment a help command

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In my discord bot

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I never made this command

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steady dagger
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That's different. Sorry I missed your post tag 🙂
Well, what bot code are you using? Perhaps it's written somewhere in there?

ornate holly
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Isn't that via doc string or is that something different?

jaunty kettle
# steady dagger That's different. Sorry I missed your post tag 🙂 Well, what bot code are you us... 

import discord
import asyncio
from shlex import split
import random as rand
from time import sleep
from discord.ext import commands
from time import ctime
import os

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = ".", intents=discord.Intents.all())

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f"{ctime()} {bot.user} is running!")
    channel = bot.get_channel(1400546643970883735)
    await channel.send(f"`{ctime()}` {bot.user} is running ")


async def cog():
    for file in os.listdir('! discord\\cogs'):
        if "pycache" in file:
            print(f"Pycache ignored")
        else:
            await bot.load_extension(f"cogs.{file[:-3]}")
            print(f"loaded {file}")
asyncio.run(cog())


bot.run("") # env here

this is mybot.py which is basically main.py

ornate holly
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I'm pretty sure help() gives you the doc string of a function if you have one and is built-in

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Could be wrong though

steady dagger
jaunty kettle
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I don't understand. What does the help function have to do here?

ornate holly
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I don't know how python -> discord works so I have no idea how the commands are formatted or where it's coming from

buoyant flower
jaunty kettle
steady dagger
buoyant flower
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I'm assuming the Discord bot dev framework you're using is discord.py

jaunty kettle
buoyant flower
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Anyway it's a keyword argument in the bot constructor

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Although "can be dynamically set at runtime"

steady dagger
whole zodiacBOT
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discord/ext/commands/bot.py line 203

self.help_command = DefaultHelpCommand()```
steady dagger
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So you can give the bot a different help_command, providing some subclass of the HelpCommand class, to override this behavior.

jaunty kettle
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That's nice. Thanks for the help!

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I'll give both of them a read

buoyant flower
jaunty kettle
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Are there other routes?

buoyant flower
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You could roll your own user manual command like any other command

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But why would you when you can implement a subclass with standard behavior

jaunty kettle
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Oh yea
That's what I was gonna do but then I noticed that there's already a help, or a 'usuer manual' command.

jaunty kettle
jaunty kettle
buoyant flower
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You can customize appearances even if you subclass from HelpCommand

jaunty kettle
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Where a new class inherits stuff from another class

buoyant flower
buoyant flower
jaunty kettle
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Okay

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Thanks

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