How to create a message with markup but without a text in telegram?

Question

I have such replying keyboard:

keyboard = [
        [
            InlineKeyboardButton("Play with a bot", callback_data=str(ONE)),
            InlineKeyboardButton("Results", callback_data=str(TWO)),
        ]
    ]
    reply_markup = InlineKeyboardMarkup(keyboard)

    update.message.reply_text(None, reply_markup=reply_markup)

It gives me such a result:

How can I get rid of the first "null" string?

Answer 1

You're passing None as the Title, resulting in null, you should pass a message as it's required for the send_message and reply_text method:

text (str) – Text of the message to be sent. Max 4096 characters after entities parsing. Also found as telegram.constants.MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH.

So, since you're required to add some text, pass it as the a extra argument to the function:

keyboard = [
    [
        InlineKeyboardButton("Play with a bot", callback_data='a'),
        InlineKeyboardButton("Results", callback_data='b'),
    ]
]
reply_markup = InlineKeyboardMarkup(keyboard)
update.message.reply_text('How can I help?', reply_markup=reply_markup)

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As described in my comment, sending a separate message also requires some text