I'm at odds with what's probably a very simple problem, but I've just started looking into the Telegram API, and specifically the python-telegram-bot library, so forgive me if this is a naive question. Simply put, I want to make a very simple bot which allows the members of the group to add "objects"(as in generic stuff, not a python object) to a list together with the name of the member who owns the object (this is done through an /add command). I store the objects as keys of a dictionary, whose values are the names of the members. Here's the code I've come up with so far:
import logging
from telegram.ext import Updater
from telegram.ext import CommandHandler
from telegram.ext import MessageHandler, Filters
list_of_stuff = {}
updater = Updater(token='698307431:AAG9kExmheQ5hLvBieJNtsTqV9M4U_GNFv0')
dispatcher = updater.dispatcher
logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
updater.start_polling()
def start(bot,update):
bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="I'm a bot, please talk to me!")
def obj(bot, update):
list_of_stuff[update.message.text] = update.message.from_user.username
def unknown(bot, update):
bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="Sorry, I didn't understand that command.")
def add(bot, update):
bot.send_message(chat_id=update.message.chat_id, text="Choose an object.")
dispatcher.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.text, obj))
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('start', start))
dispatcher.add_handler(CommandHandler('add',add))
dispatcher.add_handler(MessageHandler(Filters.command, unknown))
As you can see, there is a problem: in the obj function, I'm setting the sender's username as value, while the key is the "object" I assume will be input by the same sender. The thing is, I'd like to use just the /add command to both add the "object" as key and the username as value, and I'd like that to be possible for every member of the group (so it should be possible for every member to add "objects" for other members). But I don't know if it's possible to add two message handlers in the same function (the /add command, in this case) in a synchronous way, that is to ask the user to add the key, wait for the response, and then and only then ask to add the value, which means that the second send_message should only appear after the key has been input by the user.
