Rename bot.py for namespace reasons. Added register command. Added highscores config file.

highscores.py

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+"""
+main file for pvm-highscores bot
+"""
+
+import os
+import logging
+import json
+import nextcord
+from nextcord.ext import commands
+
+import config
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger('nextcord')
+logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+handler = logging.FileHandler(
+    filename='nextcord.log', encoding='utf-8', mode='w')
+handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(
+    '%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s: %(message)s'))
+logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+highscores_config_file = "highscores_config.json"
+highscores_data_file = "highscores_data.json"
+
+
+def main():
+    """Main function for bot."""
+    # Allows privledged intents for monitoring members joining, roles editing, and role assignments
+    # These need to be enabled in the developer portal as well
+    intents = nextcord.Intents.default()
+
+    # Required in order to read messages (eg. prefix commands)
+    intents.message_content = True
+
+    # To enable the guilds priveleged intent:
+    # intents.guilds = True
+
+    # To enable the members priveleged intent:
+    # intents.members = True
+
+    # Set custom status to "Listening to ?help"
+    activity = nextcord.Activity(
+        type=nextcord.ActivityType.listening, name=f"{config.BOT_PREFIX}help"
+    )
+
+    bot = commands.Bot(
+        commands.when_mentioned_or(config.BOT_PREFIX),
+        intents=intents,
+        activity=activity,
+    )
+
+    # Get the modules of all cogs whose directory structure is ./cogs/<module_name>
+    for folder in os.listdir("cogs"):
+        bot.load_extension(f"cogs.{folder}")
+
+    @bot.listen()
+    async def on_ready():
+        """When Discord is connected"""
+        assert bot.user is not None
+        print(f"{bot.user.name} has connected to Discord!")
+
+    # Run Discord bot
+    bot.run(config.DISCORD_TOKEN)
+
+
+def open_highscores_data():
+    """Opens a highscores_data.json file if one exists, otherwise creates a skeleton of the data."""
+    if (os.path.exists(highscores_data_file)):
+        with open(highscores_data_file, encoding='utf-8', mode="r") as file:
+            data = json.load(file)
+    else:
+        # create the json object
+        x = {
+            "channel_id": 0
+        }
+        data = json.dumps(x)
+
+    return data
+
+
+def open_highscores_config():
+    """Opens the highscores config file as a json object and returns."""
+    # Load bot config
+    with open(highscores_config_file, encoding='utf-8', mode='r') as file:
+        highscores_config = json.load(file)
+    return highscores_config
+
+
+def save_highscores_data(data):
+    """Saves the highscores data into a json file."""
+    with open(highscores_data_file, encoding='utf-8', mode='w') as file:
+        file.write(json.dumps(data, indent=4))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()