discord.py Dictionary of all roles

I’d like to create a dictionary with all roles of a guild for easier use in development:
roles_dictionary = {'role1': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='role1') } etc.

I’d like to always be able to access any role using:
roles_dictionary['role1']

I already tried putting it into the on_ready() function, however it seems as if you shouldn’t do stuff like that in the on_ready() function, since whenever I tried closing the program it just restarted the bot in two instances. (Not sure why that happened, however my theory is, that I can’t do anything until the on_ready() function is done, meaning I made API calls before the bot was ready)

This is the code I have atm:

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    for guild in client.guilds:
        if guild.name == GUILD:
            print(
                f'{client.user} is connected to the following guild:\n'
                f'{guild.name} (id: {guild.id})'
            )
            break

guild = client.get_guild(1099387953337335909)
                roles_dict = {'owner_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='👑 Paradise Founder'),
                              'admin_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🏝️ Island Manager'),
                              'moderator_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌴 Palm Guardian'),
                              'known_member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🍍 Tiki VIP'),
                              'booster_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌟 Starfish Supporter'),
                              'bot_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🥥 Coconut Companion'),
                              'member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌞 Beachcomber'),
                              'new_member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌊 Seashell Seeker'),
                              'muted_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌅 Silent Sunset')}

I can’t use any other functions in the on_ready() function and I tried creating the dictionary in the on_ready() function, however I couldn’t access it and whenever I tried making the dictionary global, the weird startup issue started occuring.

>Solution :

There is no issue with doing this kind of thing in the on_ready, what I am assuming is happening is that the dict you are creating is being garbage-collected as it is only available within that scope.

The easiest way to do this (imo) would be to subclass the standard bot class and make this new dict a member of it.

class MyBot(discord.Bot): # subclass discord.Bot
    async def on_ready(self): # override the on_ready event
        for guild in self.guilds:
            if guild.name == GUILD:
                self.roleDict = {'owner_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='👑 Paradise Founder'),
                              'admin_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🏝️ Island Manager'),
                              'moderator_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌴 Palm Guardian'),
                              'known_member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🍍 Tiki VIP'),
                              'booster_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌟 Starfish Supporter'),
                              'bot_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🥥 Coconut Companion'),
                              'member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌞 Beachcomber'),
                              'new_member_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌊 Seashell Seeker'),
                              'muted_role': discord.utils.get(guild.roles, name='🌅 Silent Sunset')}

bot = MyBot() # create an instance of MyBot
bot.run("TOKEN") # run the bot

Then, to access this new dict, you would do as such:
bot.roleDict['moderator_role']

It’s important to note that because you are creating this in the on_ready, if a role is created or removed, the roleDict will not reflect this data. I would rebuild it if this occurs.

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