Help Discord bot

[MarsMars1]

Hi! I know basically nothing about coding and for the last three hours i tried to make a discord bot.

import discord
client = discord.Client()
@client.event
def on_ready():
    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))

@client.event
def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return
    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
        message.channel.send('Hello!')
client.run('token')

this is what i wrote but it always gives me an error.

  File "<stdin>", line 7
    client.run('token')
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

i dont know how to fix it. please help.

[Rapptz]

There are a few issues here.

1. Events are meant to be async def rather than def. This should have errored earlier.
2. message.channel.send is a coroutine, so it needs await before it.

It's generally recommended to familiarise yourself with Python before starting to work on a Discord bot. Otherwise you'll end up struggling a lot when playing around with the library.

I am unsure where your SyntaxError is -- it looks syntactically valid. There might have been issue somewhere else, either with a stray character or potentially a transcribing issue. I'm not entirely sure.

[MarsMars1]

okay, thank you. I will look into python more.

[abe-101]

You probably did this but in case not
you need to change ('token') with the actual token