Reminder Command String Duration

[signal slate]

Hey so I'm making a reminder command for my bot, and it takes a string option which takes an integer and a letter for the duration, but the issue is that it takes the string as the following format; "s30", instead of the letter behind the integer.

here's the code:

    # @commands.slash_command(name="remind-me", description="Set a reminder")
    # async def reminder(
    #     self,
    #     ctx,
    #     duration: str,
    #     reminder: Option(str, description="What's the reminder for?"),
    # ):
        duration_dict = {"d": 0, "h": 0, "m": 0, "s": 0}
        for letter, value in re.findall(r"(\D)(\d+)", duration):
            duration_dict[letter] = int(value)
        reminder_time = datetime.now() + timedelta(
            days=duration_dict["d"],
            hours=duration_dict["h"],
            minutes=duration_dict["m"],
            seconds=duration_dict["s"],
        )
        epoch_time = reminder_time.timestamp()

        # embed1 = discord.Embed(
        #     title=f"Reminder Set",
        #     description=f"A reminder has been set for <t:{round(epoch_time)}:f>\n\n**Reminder:** {reminder}",
        #     color=0x4B8FCA,
        # )
        # embed1.set_author(icon_url=ctx.author.avatar.url, name=ctx.author)
        # await ctx.respond(embed=embed1)
        await asyncio.sleep((reminder_time - datetime.now()).total_seconds())
        # embed2 = discord.Embed(
        #     title="⏰ Reminder!", description=f"{reminder}", color=0x4B8FCA
        # )
        # await ctx.send(embed=embed2, content=ctx.author.mention)

[fallen hatch]

There is a cool library called time_str which converts human readable string to a timedelta object

https://github.com/BobDotCom/time_str

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If i wanted to make changes to this function and not use that library, i would change the regex to
(\d+)([dhms])

Haven't checked the regex so try it and see

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[signal slate]

Oh sorry, forgot to reply to your old message. But um yeah, I do. The regex I tried didn’t work

And I don’t think I can use the time_str library because it doesn’t support Python 3.11

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no? it works. i use it myself on 3.11

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well what didnt work?

have you tried a regex tester?

[signal slate]

Oh? I’m not too sure then, I installed it but I couldn’t import it

[signal slate]

I’ll get the error, one sec

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you might be having python environment issues.

do you use venv?

[signal slate]

I don't think so

[signal slate]

discord.errors.ApplicationCommandInvokeError: Application Command raised an exception: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'd'

[fallen hatch]

ah

well you are using groups

so split it out

btw i updated the regex

https://regex101.com/r/55ufhY/1

[signal slate]

wdym? like put a space between the integer and letter?

[fallen hatch]

see this
https://pynative.com/python-regex-capturing-groups/

it might be difficult to understand at first but read the whole thing

[signal slate]

alright, I just finished, and now I understand the regex you gave earlier

and I was able to fix the issue, I think, testing right now

yeah I did

thank you so much :)

have a good night

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Cool

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