How can we set permissions to a specific channel (discord.py)

Question

I've tried to set the permissions on a specific channel (defined before) but it doesn't work. I want the channel to be a specific one and not one based on await ctx.channel.set_permissions(role, send_messages=False)

Here's my line that I use to set the permission that doesn't work. Channel is the ID of a specific channel:

await channel.set_permissions(role, overwrite = None, send_messages=False)

Answer 1

You need to get the channel object with the id before you try to call set_permissions. Also, you can't mix overwrite with other permission kwargs.

channel being the channel's id:

channel_obj = bot.get_channel(channel)
await channel_obj.set_permissions(role, send_messages=False)

Instead of overwrite=None, send_messages=False you can do:

overwrite = discord.PermissionOverwrite()
overwrite.send_messages = False
await channel_obj.set_permissions(role, overwrite=overwrite)