jishaku 1.1.1

A discord.py extension including useful tools for bot development and debugging.

jishaku is a debugging and experimenting cog for Discord bots using discord.py@rewrite.

It is locked to Python 3.6+ and requirements will shift as new discord.py and Python versions release. This repo primarily exists for the purpose of example and usage in other bot projects.

Installing

This cog does not work without discord.py@rewrite Not having it installed properly will make the cog fail to install Use the following to install discord.py@rewrite on the latest version: python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@rewrite#egg=discord.py[voice]

This cog can be installed through the following command:

python3 -m pip install -U jishaku

Or the development version:

python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Gorialis/jishaku@master#egg=jishaku

It can be used in bots directly using

bot.load_extension("jishaku")

Functionality

Extension loading/unloading

Jishaku contains 3 commands for loading and unloading extensions:

• [jishaku|jsk] load [exts...]

• [jishaku|jsk] reload [exts...]

• [jishaku|jsk] unload [exts...]

These commands do as described, with reload unloading and loading cogs again for quick reloads. [exts...] are a set of extension names separated by spaces, such as cogs.one cogs.two cogs.three. reload is actually an alias of load, extensions are automatically reloaded based on their presence.

Reloading jishaku itself can be done conventionally with [jishaku|jsk] reload jishaku.

Python REPL

Jishaku can evaluate Python code with [jishaku|jsk] [python|py] <codeline|codeblock>.

Evaluation-like REPL is supported, allowing you to type statements like 3+4 or _ctx.author.name to return their result. This supports async syntax, so you can do evaluations like await coro() or [m async for m in _ctx.history()].

In large blocks, the last standalone expression will be returned if not in a control flow block.

Variables available in REPL are:

• _bot: Represents the current commands.Bot instance.

• _ctx: Represents the current commands.Context.

• _message: Shorthand for _ctx.message

• _msg: Shorthand for _ctx.message

• _guild: Shorthand for _ctx.guild

• _channel: Shorthand for _ctx.channel

• _author: Shorthand for _ctx.message.author

These variables are all local to the current context, and as such overwriting them won’t affect future sessions.

By default, variables are not shared at all between REPL contexts. You can use [jishaku|jsk] retain on to try and preserve locals between sessions.

Yielding inside of a codeblock allows you to return intermediate data as your code runs. Any objects yielded will be treated as if they were returned, without terminating execution.

(Note that as yielding creates an asynchronous generator, you can no longer return and must yield for all results you feed back.)

An alternate command is available, [jishaku|jsk] [python_inspect|pyi] <codeline|codeblock>.

This command performs identically as the standard REPL, but inspects yielded results instead of just formatting them.

Shell Interaction

Jishaku can interact with CLI programs with [jishaku|jsk] sh <codeline|codeblock>.

On Windows, this acts similar to Command Prompt.

On Linux, your shell is automatically determined from $SHELL, or set to bash if no such environment variable exists.

For bots maintained using the git version control system, a shortcut command [jishaku|jsk] git <codeline> is available.

This simply invokes the sh command, but prefixes with git to make running git commands easier, such as jsk git pull.

Command Invocation

Jishaku can invoke other commands on your bot in special modes:

• [jishaku|jsk] sudo <command string>

• [jishaku|jsk] debug <command string>

• [jishaku|jsk] su <member> <command string>

sudo invokes a command bypassing all checks and cooldowns. This may also invoke parent group callbacks, depending on how the command is defined. For example, jsk sudo foo will invoke foo regardless of if checks or cooldowns fail.

debug invokes a command normally, but as if it were in a Jishaku evaluation context with a timer. This means if an exception occurs, it will be direct messaged to you like as in jishaku python.

When execution finishes, the time taken to complete execution will be sent as a message.

su invokes a command as if it was invoked directly by another member. This allows you to effectively impersonate another account to your own bot, such that you can perform actions on their behalf or test command behavior.

For example, jsk su @Clyde#0001 foo will invoke foo as if it was used directly by @Clyde#0001. This command won’t work on users that the bot cannot see.

Trying to use this command with a user that is not in the current guild (if applicable) will work, but may cause weird side effects, so it is recommended to restrict usage to available members.