wilfreddv

Writing a Discord bot that executes Python code

How did it start

Python has become wildly popular in a number of fields, one of which is (chat)bots. Finally, I couldn't resist the urge to write one myself. I wouldn't be myself if it did not involve some dangerous challenge. That's why I challenged myself to write a Discord bot, that lets users run snippets of python code, on my machine.

Chapter 1: Building the skeleton

This was the easy part. After kickstarting my Discord bot knowledge by watching Sentdex' series on YouTube, I managed to throw together a quick bot. Of course, this was still very bare-bones, with only 2 functions: reporting

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#include <ncurses.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


#define MINSCRX     150
#define MINSCRY     50

#define UP      0
#define RIGHT   1

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


typedef struct Bracemap
{
  int left;
  int right;
  struct Bracemap *next;

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#!/usr/bin/python3

'''
Text-to-Brainfuck Generator
This program reads a textfile from stdin and
writes Brainfuck to stdout
The output only uses one block in a Brainfuck,
which is the currently selected block. It leaves
the block with value 0.
'''

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import pygame
import random


S_WIDTH, S_HEIGHT = 400, 400
DIV = 5
T_WIDTH, T_HEIGHT = (S_WIDTH - DIV * 5) // 4, (S_HEIGHT - DIV * 5) // 4

BLACK= (0,0,0)
COLORS = {