Discord.py Hug command with image

Question

I'm trying to make a hug command that sends an image. But upon sending the command, nothing happens. No error in the cli and no message in the channel.

@client.command(pass_context=True)
async def hug(ctx):

    os.chdir(r"file to the folder holding the images")

    hugs = [discord.File('1.jpg'), discord.File('2.jpg'), discord.File('3.jpg'), discord.File('4.gif'), discord.File('5.gif'), discord.File('6'), discord.File('7.gif'), discord.File('8.gif'), discord.File('9.gif'), discord.File('10.gif'), discord.File('11.gif')]
    hugsrandom = random.choise(hugs)

    await ctx.send(file=hugsrandom)

I also tried just sending an image inside the folder with the bot file and took out os.chdir but still nothing sent.

Answer 1

UPDATE2: The following just worked for me... I would almost certainly expect your issue is that your files are not being created properly. Either that or your bot is broken in some other way. If you use a debugger (say pycharms) you could set break points and see if your command is executing and whether or not your discord.File objects are being created properly

    async def test(self, ctx):
        image = r"C:\Users\name\Desktop\visual-reverse-image-search-v2_intro.jpg"
        import discord
        await ctx.send(file=discord.File(image))

UPDATE: I did not read far enough, it should accept a string path. Have you tried debugging into the code to see if it's successful at opening your file?

Sometimes it's worth looking at the source code. I went and looked at discord.File.

class File:
    """A parameter object used for :meth:`abc.Messageable.send`
    for sending file objects.

    Attributes
    -----------
    fp: Union[:class:`str`, :class:`io.BufferedIOBase`]
        A file-like object opened in binary mode and read mode
        or a filename representing a file in the hard drive to
        open.

        .. note::

            If the file-like object passed is opened via ``open`` then the
            modes 'rb' should be used.

            To pass binary data, consider usage of ``io.BytesIO``.
    """
    def __init__(self, fp, filename=None, *, spoiler=False):
        self.fp = fp

        if isinstance(fp, io.IOBase):
            if not (fp.seekable() and fp.readable()):
                raise ValueError('File buffer {!r} must be seekable and readable'.format(fp))
            self.fp = fp
            self._original_pos = fp.tell()
            self._owner = False
        else:
            self.fp = open(fp, 'rb')
            self._original_pos = 0
            self._owner = True

It appears as though it's expecting an opened file.

Answer 2

It's a bad idea to do os.chdir().
It can have unintended consequences. Instead do:

import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(__file__)
PICTURE_1_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../pictures/1.jpg')
PICTURE_1_FILE = discord.File(PICTURE_1_PATH)

BASE_DIR is the path of folder containing the python file. ../pictures/1.jpg is the relative path to that folder.

Answer 3

You can scan all the files paths in the folder and add them to the list using glob.

import glob

hugs = glob.glob("FULL_PATH_HERE/*") # this wil get all the file paths in the foldes.
# ['FULL_PATH_HERE/1.gif', 'FULL_PATH_HERE/2.jpg']
the_hug = random.choice(hugs)

ctx.send(file = discord.File(the_hug))