Issues with async and yielding from API

[GSerum]

Heyo guys,

So currently i'm trying to get a Discord bot to work, which uses asyncio, and an API which uses a yield function inside an event loop.

I'm trying to get a value from an api and the line on 17 does actually print a value, however at line 41 it sais that ret_mess is null.

I'm not sure what to do at this point:

import discord
import asyncio
import r6sapi as api

TOKEN = 'XXX'

client = discord.Client()
auth = api.Auth('XXX', 'XXX')
ret_mess = "";

@asyncio.coroutine
def get_kills(name, operator):
  global ret_mess
    
  player = yield from auth.get_player("TryingDutchman_", api.Platforms.UPLAY)
  operator = yield from player.get_operator("hibana")
  print(operator.kills)
  ret_mess = str(operator.kills)

def get_player(name):
  player = yield from auth.get_player(name, api.Platforms.UPLAY)
  operator = player.__next__().get_operator("sledge");
  return operator;

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
  global ret_mess
  if message.author == client.user:
    return

  if message.content.startswith('!hello'):
    msg = 'Hello {0.author.mention}'.format(message)
    await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)

  if message.content.startswith('!update'):
    try:
      asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(get_kills(message.author.display_name, "hibana"))
    except:
      print("ret: " + ret_mess)
      pass
    await client.send_message(message.channel, ret_mess)

@client.event
async def on_ready():
  global auth
  print('Logged in as')
  print(client.user.name)
  print('------')

client.run(TOKEN)

[nilamo]

Well, the only way it would say ret: null would be from line 39, in the error handler. So instead of using a catchall error handler, print the actual error.

except Exception as e:
    print(e)
    print("ret: " + ret_mess)

The harder, but "better" answer, would be to stop using globals. My guess is you shouldn't be calling run_until_complete() inside an event loop. That whole line should probably be ret_mess = await get_kills(message.author.display_name, "hibana"). And get_kills() should probably return the ret_mess, instead of (or in addition to) setting a global variable.