im fairly new to coding in general and recently started trying to code my own bot. Almost all of the tutorials i have seen use the ctx command however, whenever i use it i get this error:
"NameError: name 'ctx' is not defined"
Here is part of my code that uses the ctx command. The aim is to get it to delete the last 3 messages sent.
@client.event async def purge(ctx): """clear 3 messages from current channel""" channel = ctx.message.channel await ctx.message.delete() await channel.purge(limit=3, check=None, before=None) return True @client.event async def on_message(message): if message.content.startswith("purge"): await purge(ctx) client.run(os.environ['TOKEN'])
Full error:
Ignoring exception in on_message Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 343, in _run_event await coro(*args, **kwargs) File "main.py", line 31, in on_message await purge(ctx) NameError: name 'ctx' is not defined
I’m hosting the server on repl.it if that makes any difference and as i said, im pretty new to coding so it’s possible i have missed something very obvious, any help is appreciated. ^_^
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Answer
A fix to that is:
async def purge(message): await message.delete() channel = message.channel await channel.purge(limit=3) @client.event async def on_message(message): if message.content.startswith("purge"): await purge(message)
The problem is the on_message
function uses message
and not ctx
. Replacing message with ctx
wont work because im pretty sure the on_message
cant use ctx