Gobot1234

Subclassing the help command in discord.py

This is going to be a short-ish guide on sub-classing help as ?tag new help isn't great at explaining things.

Choosing which help command to subclass

1. Don't subclass HelpCommand unless you're going to override every one of the send_x methods, because that class does not do anything (it literally just returns None)
2. DefaultHelpCommand is for the default help command (the code block one)
3. MinimalHelpCommandis a minimalistic version of the help command, this is an example of the command produced if you copy ?tag new help
4. HelpCommand is a completely blank slate and can be subclassed to look any way you want, although most people use them for embeds ![My example of a help co

EvieePy

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If you are not using this inside a cog, add the event decorator e.g:
@bot.event
async def on_command_error(ctx, error)

For examples of cogs see:
https://gist.github.com/EvieePy/d78c061a4798ae81be9825468fe146be

For a list of exceptions:
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/api.html#exceptions