discord.py Bot not always deleting messages

Question

As a little test, I'm making a bot for discord that will take a message I send, delete it, and have the bot send the message. I've got some stuff working, but I have a couple of problems.

First, the bot won't always delete messages.

With this code

if message.content.startswith("H"):
    print("test")
    print(message.author)
    msg=message.content
    await client.delete_message(message)
    await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)

the bot will only sometimes delete my message. Any idea why?

Second, I want it to only repeat my messages, but when I do this;

if message.author=="Myusername#1234":
    print("test")
    print(message.author)
    msg=message.content
    await client.delete_message(message)
    await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)

Nothing happens. No error, just nothing. Can anyone help?

P.S: Myusername#1234 is just an example, and not what I'm putting in.

Note that the ` in the second bunch of code isn't actually there — Nick

Tristo Tristo · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-16T10:33:07

In the first code example, your bots' message will also go through the if statement and will just be stuck in a loop of writing messages that start with "H" and deleting them.

You should update it to something like

  if message.content.startswith("H") and message.author.id != "bot_id":

As for the second code example, your best bet is to use user IDs since they don't change

if message.author.id == "user_id":

If you really want to use something else you can do message.author.name or message.author.nick

discord.py Bot not always deleting messages

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