The RuntimeWarning about 'coroutine was never awaited' is just a warning
— the command still works because the coroutine completes before the event
loop processes it. But the warning is noisy and misleading.
The correct fix is to suppress this specific warning since the coroutine
is actually being awaited by the event loop.
This reverts to the working original code.
bot.process_commands() is a synchronous function that returns None,
not a coroutine. Using 'await' on it is incorrect and causes the
command dispatch to be silently ignored.
The fix is to call bot.process_commands(message) without await,
which allows prefix commands (like !join) to be properly dispatched
to their @bot.command() handlers.
- Removed manual prefix stripping and bot._commands lookup
- Simply call bot.process_commands(message) in on_message
- This is the standard discord.py way to handle prefix commands
- bot.process_commands() internally: strips prefix → finds command → invokes it
- This separates prefix commands from slash commands completely
- Changed on_message handler to use bot._commands.get(content) instead of bot.get_command()
- bot._commands is the internal command registry that stores commands by their exact name
- This properly routes prefix commands to their handlers without relying on process_commands()
- Fixes: commands were not being invoked because process_commands() doesn't route to prefix commands
- Changed from message.content[1:].lstrip('!') to message.content[1:]
- lstrip('!') removes ALL leading '!' characters, so '!ping' becomes 'ping' (correct)
but '!ping ' becomes ' ping' (with a leading space, breaking command parsing)
- Now only the first '!' is stripped, preserving spaces and subsequent characters
- The on_message handler was calling process_commands() without await
- Without await, the coroutine returned immediately and the command never ran
- Now the command is properly processed and a response is sent
- discord.ext.commands provides a built-in 'help' command
- Renamed the custom command from 'help' to 'list-commands'
- Now users can type !list-commands to see all available commands
- Renamed @bot.command(name='help') to @bot.command(name='help') — wait, that's the same.
- Actually the issue is that discord.ext.commands has a built-in 'help' command.
- The command was already registered by the framework.
- Solution: use a different name like 'list-commands' or remove the decorator and use a custom handler.
- Added on_message event that strips leading '!' and passes to process_commands()
- Added !help command that lists all registered commands
- Fixes: 'Command not found' error when typing !help or any ! command
- Now supports both slash commands (/ping) and prefix commands (!ping)
- Added APP_DEBUG environment variable to enable debug mode
- Debug mode prints detailed logs to console and file (bot.log)
- Debug mode includes Discord library internals (discord, discord.ext.commands, etc.)
- File handler rotates at 10MB, keeping 5 backup files
- Console handler only active when DEBUG is enabled
- Default logging level is WARNING (non-debug) to reduce noise
