discord.py - How do I put all the text after the name of my command and the prefix into a variable like rest_of_message in the async def?

Question

So I'm making an afk command, and I want to store everything I type after !afk into the reason, instead of having to put "" around it. Is there any way I can do this? Thanks in advance :)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65873019/how-do-i-put-all-the-text-after-the-name-of-my-command-and-the-prefix-into-a-var

Answer 1

The text after the command is passed on as all variables in your program you can get all of those with *args and merge them back into a sentence with ' '.join(args).

Example code:

bot.command()
async def afk(ctx, *args):
    reason = ' '.join(args)
    ctx.send(f'{ctx.author.name} has gone afk with the following reason: "{reason}", bye')