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How to Skip Cell Execution in Jupyter Notebook

In this article, I’ll show you how to skip the execution of cells in Jupyter Notebook based on certain conditions.
The methods described here are applicable to Google Colaboratory and Kaggle Notebooks.

To skip cell execution, create a custom magic command as follows:

  1. First, create a skip magic command that does nothing.

Building a Discord Chatbot with Python (9) - Adding Interactive Buttons to Chat Messages

In this installment, we’ll dive deeply into how to add interactive buttons to your chat messages in Discord. Additionally, we’ll explore the variety of responses you can trigger when these buttons are pressed.

Note
Given that this article aims to be a comprehensive guide on Discord bot interactions, it’s a bit longer than our previous posts.

Discord provides a framework for adding “message components” (or simply “components”), which are interactive elements you can place within chat messages.
(See: Message Components)

Building a Discord Chatbot with Python (8) - Adding Options to Bot Commands

Continuing from our last session, we’ll be using discord.ext.commands to add options to our chatbot commands.
(Reference: Documentation)

We’ll add a new ‘category’ option to the ‘quiz’ feature, allowing for quizzes in various categories.
Additionally, we’ll introduce a ’timeout’ option to adjust the time limit for answering questions.

In our previous article, we refactored the code using discord.py’s extension, discord.ext.commands.

The code for the ‘quiz’ feature, found in commands/quiz.py, is as follows:

Building a Discord Chatbot with Python (7) - Refactoring Code Using Discord.py's Extension

In this article, we’ll leverage the discord.ext.commands extension in discord.py
to refactor our somewhat complex on_message function.

The code up to our last session is as follows:
We added !omikuji and !quiz commands, which made the on_message function somewhat bloated.

Building a Discord Chatbot with Python (6) - Adding a 'Quiz' Feature

In this post, we’ll introduce a method to wait for user replies and leverage it to add a new ‘Quiz’ feature to our chatbot.

Previously, we delved into how to reply to user messages.
We then employed this mechanism to incorporate a ‘fortune-telling’ feature.