Send text from return statement of decorated function as reply from bot

[alparo]

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1. What version of pyTelegramBotAPI are you using?
   4.7.0
2. What OS are you using?
   Win10
3. What version of python are you using?
   3.8.10

I have a proposal. Maybe it will be possible to implement following scenario:

1. you decorate function with message_handler decorator;
2. you use in the decorated function return statement with e.g. some text;
3. this text is sent as a reply to the user, who triggered the decorated function by his/her message.

It will help to decrease code nesting in bots, which main purpose is to send something back to the user for each bot command.

[coder2020official]

I'll think about something similar

[Badiboy]

Will
return "some reply"
be more "economy" then
bot.reply_to(message, "some reply")
in your code?

@alparo , @coder2020official Are you serious?! You want to save 20 letters with that?!

[coder2020official]

I never said that I'll implement it. But it could be something related to webhooks - webhook replying probably. We'll see.

[alparo]

@Badiboy, I mean that when I have logic like this:

...
if  <some top condition>:
    if <some condition>:
        if <some condition>:
            if <some condition>:
                if <some condition>:
                    ...
                    <main logic here, like result_message = "some text">
                else:
                     result_message = "you can't do that, because ..."
            else:
                result_message = "you can't do that, because ..."
        else:
            result_message = "you can't do that, because ..."
    else:
        result_message = "you can't do that, because ..."
bot.reply_to(message, result_message )

then with the proposed feature it can be done much easier, like:

...
if  <some top condition>:
    if <some condition>:
        return "you can't do that, because ..."
    if <some condition>:
        return "you can't do that, because ..."
    if <some condition>:
        return "you can't do that, because ..."
    if <some condition>:
        return "you can't do that, because ..."
                    ...
    <main logic here, like result_message = "some text">
bot.reply_to(message, result_message )

Maybe my scenario is too specific. I don't know.

[Badiboy]

...
if  <some top condition>:
    if <some condition>:
        bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
        return
    if <some condition>:
        bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
        return
    if <some condition>:
        bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
        return
    if <some condition>:
        bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
        return
                    ...
    <main logic here, like result_message = "some text">

My god. Soooo hard code...

[Cub11k]

Use elif instead of returns :)

[Badiboy]

Lol, you can even return this to save 4 lines.

if  <some top condition>:
    if <some condition>:
        return bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
    if <some condition>:
        return bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
    if <some condition>:
        return bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
    if <some condition>:
        return bot.reply_to(message, "you can't do that, because ...")
                    ...
    <main logic here, like result_message = "some text">

Anyway nothing uses this results...

[alparo]

@Badiboy, thanks for this hint, man! I will use this approach!