"await message.channel.send()" code for discord.py giving me syntax error

Question

I am trying to create a simple bot for a discord server in Python. For now, as a joke, I am just trying to create a "report" command that will send the entire Bee Movie script to whoever types that. For some reason, whenever I try to do await message.channel.send(line.strip()) I get an "invalid syntax error"

Does anyone have any tips on how to solve this issue?

# bot.py
import os

import discord
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
TOKEN = os.getenv('TOKEN')

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix ='$')

def read_lines(file):
    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
        for line in lines:
            if line == "\n":
                print("\nEmpty Line\n")
            else:
                await message.channel.send(line.strip())
                return


@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
      return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
      await message.channel.send('Hello!')

    if message.content.startswith('$report'):
        read_lines('bot.txt')


client.run(TOKEN)

P.S: I am fairly new to Python and the return right after the mentioned line is also giving me an indentation block issue

Answer 1

That's because you don't specify message in read_lines() function in def read_lines(file) put another argument and make it async like this: async def read_lines(file, message) and in read_lines("bot.txt") add this message like this: await read_lines("bot.txt", message) and see if it works now. Final code: (Edit also put from discord.ext import commands on top)

import os
from discord.ext import commands
import discord
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()
TOKEN = os.getenv('TOKEN')

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix ='$')

async def read_lines(file, message):
    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
        for line in lines:
            if line == "\n":
                print("\nEmpty Line\n")
            else:
                await message.channel.send(line.strip())
                return


@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'{client.user} has connected to Discord!')

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
      return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
      await message.channel.send('Hello!')

    if message.content.startswith('$report'):
        await read_lines('bot.txt', message)


client.run(TOKEN)