Reply to a message discord.py

Question

I want to make my bot react to a users message when they type a certain sentence.

My code to reply:

await ctx.message.reply("I just replied to you")

I get the error:

ctx.message has no attribute "reply"

What code can I do to make the bot reply to the message?

When I say reply, I mean the same as a user can press reply on a message

Solution 1

To any new user here, as of the 1.6.0 discord.py-rewrite update, you are now able to reply!

Every message or context now has a reply attribute. To reply, simply use

await ctx.reply('Hello!')

You can also not mention the author in the reply with mention_author=False

await ctx.reply('Hello!', mention_author=False)

You can also find a basic example Here

Solution 2

@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content == "hi":
        await message.channel.send("hello", reference=message)

The main thing here is reference=message. It is available since Discord.py 1.6.

More info: 1, 2.

Comments

[Legacy Coding]

No i know that to send a message you can use that, but i want it to specifically reply to the message, like when you right click on a message and press reply

[Legacy Coding]

Hi, when i say "reply" i mean reply as in a user would right click and press reply

[Zeref]

What version of discord.py do you use? The documentation says that it was added in version 1.6.

[Zeref]

I don't know if this has to do with me using PyCharm but according to it, the latest version of discord.py is 1.5.1, so maybe it's something that hasn't been implemented yet.

[shellbyy]

ah I got you. I do apologize, but I'm not sure how one would go about doing that :( I will be following this though so that if someone has figured out a way, then I can learn something new too :)

[Nicholas Chen]

I got an error saying that AttributeError: 'Context' object has no attribute 'reply', can someone help?

[Frederick Reynolds]

@NicholasChen You need to update to discord.py 1.6

[Nicholas Chen]

Thanks, I'll do that