Why does on_message stop commands from working?

Basically, everything appears to work fine and start up, but for some reason I can't call any of the commands. I've been looking around for easily an hour now and looking at examples/watching videos and I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong. Code below:

import discord import asyncio from discord.ext import commands bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = '-') @bot.event async def on_ready(): print('Logged in as') print(bot.user.name) print(bot.user.id) print('------') @bot.event async def on_message(message): if message.content.startswith('-debug'): await message.channel.send('d') @bot.command(pass_context=True) async def ping(ctx): await ctx.channel.send('Pong!') @bot.command(pass_context=True) async def add(ctx, *, arg): await ctx.send(arg) 

The debug output I have in on_message actually does work and responds, and the whole bot runs wihout any exceptions, but it just won't call the commands.

2 Answers

From the documentation:

Overriding the default provided on_message forbids any extra commands from running. To fix this, add a bot.process_commands(message) line at the end of your on_message. For example:

@bot.event async def on_message(message): # do some extra stuff here await bot.process_commands(message) 

The default on_message contains a call to this coroutine, but when you override it with your own on_message, you need to call it yourself.

Ascertained that the problem stems from your definition of on_message, you could actually just implement debug as a command, since it appears to have the same prefix as your bot:

@bot.command() async def debug(ctx): await ctx.send("d")