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How do you edit a role permission in discord.py?

I wrote a little Python Script which should give the "Administrator" permission to a certain role, just to try how role editing works. This is my code:

 @bot.command()
 async def EditRoleTest(ctx):
     await ctx.guild.roles[1].edit("permissions(administrator)")

But as soon as I try to run it, the following error occurs:

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: 
Command raised an exception: 
TypeError: edit() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

So how do I pass the argument that I want to add the permission administrator? Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • When editing a role you must pass a discord.Permissions instance as a keyword-only argument

    role = ctx.guild.roles[1] # Or another role object
perms = discord.Permissions(administrator=True)
await role.edit(permissions=perms)

    Reference: