how to timeout a member with await timeout()

[steel heart]

i don't understand how you can timeout a member with this function and also choose for how much user will be timeouted

[jade jasper]

https://docs.disnake.dev/en/stable/api.html#disnake.Member.timeout
You need to call it on a Member.

[steel heart]

i don't understand how can i specify a duration

[jade jasper]

@bot.slash_command(description="Timeout Member")
async def test_command(inter:disnake.ApplicationCommandInteraction, target:disnake.Member):
    await target.timeout(duration=500.0)
    await inter.send(f"Put {target.display_name} on a 500seconds timeout")

Or you can use datetimes instead

[odd sapphire]

The docs explain it pretty well..

[jade jasper]

I assume you tried to do member.timeout(60) which normally would make sense. However if you look in the docs at the definition
await timeout(*, duration=..., until=..., reason=None)
This is a python thing. See the asterisk ( * )? It collects all positional arguments. In essence what it means when you have a * alone in the start of a function is that you must use keyword arguments. In this case target.timeout(duration=500.0)

[steel heart]

thanks