discord.py bot says function doesn't exist while it does

January 4, 2022

I was about to start making a discord bot with python when it didn’t recognize a function i made.
The first minor problem I found was that when I made my async def on_ready() function, it didn’t print anything while i did tell it to print("Bot is online.").

The second problem is that when I run the command !verify, it throws this error: discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "verify" is not found

This is my code:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

client = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!")

async def on_ready():
    print("Bot is online.")

async def verify(ctx):
    role = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name="Member")
    if role not in ctx.message.author.roles:
        print("NOT A MEMBER.")
    else:
        print("IS A MEMBER.")

client.run("TOKEN")

>Solution :

You need to add client.command() decorator to let discord.py know that it is a command:

@client.command()
async def verify(ctx):
    role = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name="Member")
    if role not in ctx.message.author.roles:
        print("NOT A MEMBER.")
    else:
        print("IS A MEMBER.")

Also write @client.event before your on_ready function because it is a discord.py event.