@Nikhil Prem what he said

They're most useful for editing bot code dynamically. You don't need to kill the script everytime you want to make changed to the bot, which is very important once your bot is on many servers.

the induvidual files he put into the cogs folder are literally the cogs. if you take them out, the program within them will not run.

@@waiitwhaat Actually, not just that. Cogs are a way to divide your code and separate the structures in their respective place. This way, your code won't be a complete mess in a single 20000 lines of code file. Cogs are what makes your bot development be more efficient as well as its performance. When you have a problem, you don't want it to be in the whole source code, you want it to be where the problem is coming from; this is efficient programming. So, besides what's completely essencial (the bot setup and the Cog loading functions) every single thing you have on your bot (modules, commands, events) should be made in Cogs

@@razorzinho what's an example of some cogs I'd want to make?

3:10. Not going to sleep.

@@LimonluMentos 4:40 going to bed now

Thanks!

but it's a pretty bad practice, docs are always the way to go when learning about something. but sometimes when your completely lost even with reading the docs i guess its fine

a cog is a class that is defined by commands.Cog. It is used to organize information and store it like a dictionary.

@@RishaadKhan I need to watch this again then. That sounds like it'd be extremely useful for my goals.

@@MelodyParadiseNightcore Now... I'm lost again.

@@MelodyParadiseNightcore I think I'm still waiting for the second half of that second statement. Lol Thanks though.

@@ThatAnArchyDude Kind of late, but its modules that can be unloaded and loaded on the fly

Thanks a lot! Helped me

discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/cogs.html

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@@KnownAsReal xD

@@KnownAsReal you made my day lmao

By default, if you have cogs, there will be a help command in discord.py! Just use help if necessary! I'm here to answer any further questions.

Ty

@@pauloh422 you're welcome. Glad I could help :)

YOURE A LEGEND. I was so confused whats wrong with the code and spent half an hour googling

Dapz is a programmer confirmed

Yes.

yea it will

don't include the for filename in os.listdir part in the main bot.py file

yes

In the main bot file, create a folder named 'utils'. Create a python document named 'checks' and add 'import discord' at the top. Now just write something like this to check any sort of permissions for commands: owner = default.get("config.json").owner async def check_permissions(ctx, perms, *, check=all): if ctx.author.id == owner: return True resolved = ctx.channel.permissions_for(ctx.author) return check(getattr(resolved, name, None) == value for name, value in perms.items()) def has_permissions(*, check=all, **perms): async def pred(ctx): return await check_permissions(ctx, perms, check=check) return commands.check(pred) At the top of the cogs, load your checks like this: from utils import checks Now at the top of your commands inside said cogs, you just add two lines like this, just changing the permission requirement to what you want it to require, for example 'kick_members' in place of 'administrator': @commands.guild_only() @checks.has_permissions(administrator=True) Your JSON config file will be different, but you just load it up and grab your bot owner ID from it as shown

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Ofc, cause ping is not an extension it's a command...

you might want to check the path of your cogs folder. Perhaps the directory is \ instead of /

@commands.Cog.listener() use this maybe it will be fixed

to make the help message custom you first have to get rid of the original default one. client.remove_command('help') that gets rid of the default one.

hi P$

hi PH

can you post your code

client.load_extension(f'cogs.{extension}). cog.{extension}. in this context cogs is the directory

It looks for it in the bot folder. Because the cogs are in a cog folder and that cog folder is a subdirectory of the bot folder, it'll find it like normal. Files in the cog folder can also access files in the bot folder(as far as I can tell)

How did you do this? im having a similar error with the 'client' variable as its not in external files

​@@HorrifyingMonkey I had to comment out the ping function in Cog file, now my bot is working, but I guess i wont use that ping function within the cog? lol Im in the same boat you are.

I would like to know how he set the alias

@@inodecode7600 i managed to fix it, instead of client.latency, use 'self.client.latency' in the cogs

@@HorrifyingMonkey Saved me a headache, cheers mate

Permissions for the certain channels

ikr

thanks :)))

you need to capitalize "Cog" when you are setting it up

hi, i fixed it by apparently saving the example.py file. It was kinda dumb on my side but yeah, that fixed it for me :)