So here is what I am trying to do I am trying to get my Twitter bot to give maths answers to users using WolframAlpha API here is what problem I am facing as people will mention my Twitter username to active the bot example: @twitterusername 2 2 the WolframAlpha will take it as the whole input @twitterusername 2 2 which will give me the error I want it to ignore the username here is my code

def respondToTweet(file='tweet_ID.txt'):
    last_id = get_last_tweet(file)
    mentions = api.mentions_timeline(last_id, tweet_mode='extended')
    if len(mentions) == 0:
        return

    new_id = 0
    logger.info("someone mentioned me...")

    for mention in reversed(mentions):
        logger.info(str(mention.id)   '-'   mention.full_text)
        new_id = mention.id
        status = api.get_status(mention.id)

        if '@Saketltd01' in mention.full_text.lower():
            logger.info("Responding back with QOD to -{}".format(mention.id))
            client = wolframalpha.Client(app_id)

            query = mention.full_text.lower()

            rest = client.query(query)

            answer = next(rest.results).text
            Wallpaper.get_wallpaper(answer)

            media = api.media_upload("created_image.png")

            logger.info("liking and replying to tweet")

            api.create_favorite(mention.id)
            api.update_status('@'   mention.user.screen_name, mention.id,
                              media_ids=[media.media_id])

    put_last_tweet(file, new_id)


def main():
    respondToTweet()

CodePudding user response：

When you take the whole input remember to strip it down by simply removing your username from the actual input string and then perform the mathematical operation on it:

myUsername = "@my_username"
equation = userInput.lstrip(myUsername)

perform_desired_operation_on(equation) // User defined function