I made a script that includes web scraping and api requests but I wanted to add discord.py for sending the results to my discord server but it stops after this:
client.run('token')
Is there any way to fix this?
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You need to use threads.
Python threading allows you to have different parts of your program run concurrently and can simplify your design.
What Is a Thread?
A thread is a separate flow of execution. This means that your program will have two things happening at once.
Getting multiple tasks running simultaneously requires a non-standard implementation of Python, writing some of your code in a different language, or using multiprocessing which comes with some extra overhead.
Starting a thread
The Python standard library provides threading
import threading
x = threading.Thread(target=thread_function, args=(1,))
x.start()
wrapping up
you need to create two threads for each loop. Create and run the discord client in a thread, use another thread for web scraping and API requests.
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The run method is completely blocking, so there are two ways I can see to solve this issue:
- create and run the client in a separate thread, and use a queue of some sort to communicate between the client and the rest
- use the
startmethod, that returns an async coroutine which you can wrap into a task and multiplex with your scraping and API-requesting, assuming that also uses async coroutines
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client.run seems to be a blocking operation.
E.g. your code is not meant to be executed after client.run
You can try using loop.create_task() as described here, to create another coroutine that would run in background and feed some messages into your client.
