I am currently making a discord bot, and I need it to make some loops in places but I also need it to be ready to respond to other people while it's in the loop. Here's a simplified example:
n = 40
while n > 0:
print(n)
n -= 1
print('Hello')
Here I want the hello to be printed while the loop is happening, not after it finishes
You need to use Asyncio https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html
Here's an example that will print odd and even numbers at the "Same" time.
import asyncio, time
#prints out even numbers
async def func1():
evenNumbers = [num for num in range(50) if num % 2==0]
for num in evenNumbers:
await asyncio.sleep(1)
print(num)
#prints out odd numbers
async def func2():
oddNumbers = [num for num in range(50) if num % 2!=0]
for num in oddNumbers:
await asyncio.sleep(1)
print(num)
#handles asynchronous method calling
async def main():
await asyncio.gather(
func1(),
func2()
)
asyncio.run(main())
Feel free to try it out and see how it works.
I'm not sure for discord bot, but in general, you can use threading to do multiple things at the same time.
For example :
import threading
def thread_function():
n = 40
while n > 0:
print(n)
n -= 1
th = threading.Thread(target=thread_function)
th.start()
print('Hello')
