Telegram Bot Dialogue Keyboard (minimal example)

telegram-dialogue.py

"""
This code shows how to create a custom keyboard for a telegram bot
Using https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot
"""
from telegram.ext import Updater
from telegram.ext import CommandHandler
from telegram.ext import MessageHandler, Filters
from telegram import Bot
from telegram import KeyboardButton
from telegram import ReplyKeyboardMarkup

API_Key = #your key

updater = Updater(API_Key, use_context=True)
dispatcher = updater.dispatcher

bot = Bot(token=API_Key)

#button 1 as object
bt1 = KeyboardButton("button1")

#generates keyboard from list of buttons, button2 as string defined
keyboard = ReplyKeyboardMarkup([[bt1, "button2"]])

#sends keyboard when user says /hi
def say_hello(update, context):
    context.bot.send_message(text= "hi", chat_id=update.effective_chat.id,\
                reply_markup=keyboard)
    

hello_handler = CommandHandler("hi", say_hello)
dispatcher.add_handler(hello_handler)

updater.start_polling()
updater.idle()