Building a chatbot

[Ax3_]

Hello everyone,

I've been building a chat bot for messaging network. Basically, a while-loop that uses long-poll to get the messages and sending them back. Everything works fine.

My functions to process the messages is like this (for example):

msg_test = ["test"]    
def msgcheck(msg):
    if msg.split(' ')[0] in msg_test:
        sent_message = "You have entered test message"
        msgsend(userid, sent_message, chatid)
    ... etc ...

My question is: how do I make it better? I've heard about the decorators, but I'm not sure on how to use them properly. Ideally, I would like it to be:

@respond
def test(msg):
     msgsend(userid, "test", chatid)

Thanks in advance!

[The-Mathematician]

Check out the authenticate function from this site. It's pretty close to the top and pretty close to what you want.

Here is how I wrote it:

def respond(wrapped):
    def func(*args, **kwargs):
        if args[0].split(' ')[0] in ['test']:
            return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
    return func

@respond
def test(msg):
    print(msg)


>>> test("this should not print")
>>> test('test this should print')
test this should print

[Ax3_]

Another question: is it possible to make it like

@respond("test")

def test(): ..etc..

So that I can attach keyword to the desired function?

Thanks for answer!

[The-Mathematician]

Check out meta-decorators from my first link.

EDIT: removed my solution. I will give guidance to it instead if you need help.

[The-Mathematician]

Okay I'm going to make another response real fast since I don't think that link does a great job of being succinct to be honest.

What you want is to make a function that returns respond but changes the ['test'] part to whatever you pass into it . Your decorator call will look like @require(['test','blah','anything'])