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How to make a telegram bot respond to the specific word in a sentence? - Metodolog - Dec-02-2019
So, I'm trying to make my bot respond whenever a certain word is said in a sentence (the language is Serbian), so I made this code:
if (message.text.lower().find('lav') != -1):
bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Najgore pivo...")Now, the bot is doing what I would like, when some somebody says:"Popio sam lav"
it responds as it should.
But, the problem is that the word "lav" is also part in other words, for example:
"Nebo je plavo"
so the bot responds here as well and I want to block that.
I am just starting to play with python, so I would really appreciate help, tnx :)
RE: How to make a telegram bot respond to the specific word in a sentence? - stullis - Dec-02-2019
It's looking for any sequence of "lav" in the string. Here are two solutions.
1. Split the sentence up by white space. This will change the sentence to a list which you can iterate over, checking for the word.
sentence = message.text.lower()
if "lav" in sentence.split():
bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Najgore pivo...")2. Use a regular expression instead. "\blav\b" will do the trick.import re
match_lav = re.compile("\blav\b")
matches = match_lav.findall(message.text.lower())
if len(matches) > 0:
bot.send_message(message.chat.id, "Najgore pivo...")
RE: How to make a telegram bot respond to the specific word in a sentence? - martabassof - Dec-22-2020
Hello,
I am super new with python and been having the same problem.
I currently have a bot running on Telegram which only responds to specific messages.
I want it to answer to specific words as well, contained in a sentence, but the code I found here seems not to work.
What can I do?
Thanks