Discord.py sends argument "weird"-CodePudding

So, I am making a discord music bot and when the person searches something it plays the music, and it uses the valuable arg for that so for example: ?play christmas song but altough it does play the music correctly it sends this message: Now playing: ('christmas', 'song') It's like it cuts the 2 words and puts them both in like a sort of list?

This is my code:

@commands.command()
  async def play(self, ctx, *arg):
    
    if ctx.author.voice is None:
      await ctx.send("Join a voice channel")
    voice_channel = ctx.author.voice.channel
    if ctx.voice_client is None:
      await voice_channel.connect()
    else:
      await ctx.voice_client.move_to(voice_channel)
    ctx.voice_client.stop()
    try:
      requests.get(""   str(arg))
    except: arg = " "   str(arg)
    else: arg = ""   str(arg)
    YDL_OPTIONS = {'format':"bestaudio"}
    vc = ctx.voice_client
    FFMPEG_OPTIONS = {'before_options': '-reconnect 1 -reconnect_streamed 1 -reconnect_delay_max 5', 'options': '-vn'}
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(YDL_OPTIONS) as ydl:
      info = ydl.extract_info(f"ytsearch:{arg}", download=False)
      if 'entries' in info:
        video = info['entries'][0]
      else:
        video = info
      url2 = video['formats'][0]['url']
      print(video)
      video_url = video['url']
      print(video_url)
      source = await discord.FFmpegOpusAudio.from_probe(url2, **FFMPEG_OPTIONS)
      await ctx.send("Now playing: **"   str(arg)   "**")
      vc.play(source)

CodePudding user response：

Instead of doing async def play(self, ctx, *arg): do async def play(self, ctx, *, arg): by making a keyword argument, it tells discord.py to consume all of the arguments passed to that single argument

so a command invoked as {prefix}play hello from adelle, in your command, your arg will be hello from adelle

CodePudding user response：

It's because you're just print what you receive as parameter, you need to decouple the arg as like this:

await ctx.send("Now playing: **"   *arg   "**")

await ctx.send("Now playing: **"   ' '.join(arg)   "**")