[FIXED] Discord.py: I can't increase the value of an Int inside my config.py

Issue

I can't increase the value of the Int pinggoals which is inside my config.py.

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from config import *
import asyncio

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if '*ping' in message.content:
        await message.channel.send('🏓 Pong! \r Bot / ' + str(ponggoals) + ' : 0 \\ Users')
        pinggoals += 1

my config.py is just pinggoals = 1

Solution

You will have to declare the variable outside of the if statement. Something like this should work:

from discord.ext import commands
from config import *
import asyncio


@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    pinggoals = 0  # You can't increase a non-number, change this to whatever you want
    if '*ping' in message.content:
        await message.channel.send('🏓 Pong! \r Bot / ' + str(ponggoals) + ' : 0 \\ Users')
        pinggoals += 1

The reason I don't think having global pinggoals will work, is because pinggoals is not set to an integer, and you can't add one to nothing.

Answered By - RogerFederer2006