How do I create a drop down menu inside of a command with discord.py

Question

I was going to make a rock paper scissors game with discord.py and I first defaulted to using select menus in messages, that would work if I could find a way to do it, so then I decided to just make it use a string object, but then I thought to myself it would not be easy if the user had to guess what the choices where, so then I wanted to include a select menu inside of a slash command like the one you get from this code:

@tree.command(name="boolean_test", description="Boolean test")
async def boolean_test(command, boolean: bool):
    pass

but I could not find a way to do that. I'm not using any forks of discord.py

Can someone help?

Answer 1

There are three ways to do this:

• choices
• Literal
• Enum

The docs page for choices shows an example for all three of them. The one you decide to go for depends on your use case. For example, Choices have a value attribute that you can use to make them easier to work with internally (like attaching an id to the choices instead of the raw strings).