Monkey patching discord.ext.commands.view methods to allow case insensitivity for all prefixes and commands.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bot/__init__.py b/bot/__init__.py
index 9bad5790a..90b474c7c 100644
--- a/bot/__init__.py
+++ b/bot/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,33 @@
 # coding=utf-8
+import discord.ext.commands.view
+
+
+def case_insensitive_skip_string(self, string: str):
+    """Invokes the skip_string method from
+    discord.ext.commands.view used to find
+    the prefix in a message, but allows prefix
+    to ignore case sensitivity
+    """
+    string = string.lower()
+    return _skip_string(self, string)
+
+
+def case_insensitive_get_word(self):
+    """Invokes the get_word method from
+    discord.ext.commands.view used to find
+    the bot command part of a message, but
+    allows the command to ignore case sensitivity
+    """
+    word = _get_word(self)
+    if isinstance(word, str):
+        return word.lower()
+    return word
+
+
+# save the old methods
+_skip_string = discord.ext.commands.view.skip_string
+_get_word = discord.ext.commands.view.get_word
+
+# monkey patch them to be case insensitive
+discord.ext.commands.view.skip_string = case_insensitive_skip_string
+discord.ext.commands.view.get_word = case_insensitive_get_word