I'm working on a telegram bot using python-telegram-bot library in python I want my bot to send a quiz to the user Here is the code:
question = dict_api.get_question()
word = question['word']
answer = question['answer']
options = question['options']
q = f"What is the translation of the word '{word}'"
context.bot.send_poll(chat_id=person_id, question=q, options=options, type=Poll.QUIZ, correct_option_id=answer)
and i have PollHandler to take care of the response, when the user had responded i want the bot to delete the quiz for the user, how can i do that?
i've tried to delete it by
context.bot.delete_message(message_id=update.poll.id, chat_id=chat_id)
as someone would delete a message, but it didn't work and i assume because polls are treated differently by telegram. Thanks in advance
The message_id parameter of bot.delete_message needs the message id, not the poll id. Note that poll updates don't contain a message_id, because polls can e.g. be forwarded, so they can have multiple message_ids even in chats where your bot isn't even a member.
However if you only want to delete the original message, you can e.g. store a mapping poll id -> (chat_id, message_id) in e.g. context.bot_data and then use chat_id, message_id = context.bot_data[update.poll.id] to get the stored values back to delete the message. Note that context.user/chat_data can't work for this here, because poll updates are not associated with a specific user/chat and hence context.user/chat_data will be None in PollHandler callbacks.
Instead of storing (chat_id, message_id), you could also just store the Message object that bot.send_poll returns - then you only have to call context.bot_data[update.poll.id].delete().
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Disclaimer: I'm currently the maintainer of python-telegram-bot.