From aace6002d8587b5a79c1ba456ac045a7351152dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Numerlor <25886452+Numerlor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 21:53:44 +0100
Subject: Attempt to resolve first part of the argument in case of a failed
 lookup

---
 bot/exts/info/doc/_cog.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bot/exts/info/doc/_cog.py b/bot/exts/info/doc/_cog.py
index df076f162..16baa6320 100644
--- a/bot/exts/info/doc/_cog.py
+++ b/bot/exts/info/doc/_cog.py
@@ -244,8 +244,18 @@ class DocCog(commands.Cog):
 
         symbol_info = self.doc_symbols.get(symbol)
         if symbol_info is None:
-            log.debug("Symbol does not exist.")
-            return None
+            if symbol.count(" "):
+                # If an invalid symbol contains a space, check if the command was invoked
+                # in the format !d <symbol> <message>
+                symbol = symbol.split(" ", maxsplit=1)[0]
+                symbol_info = self.doc_symbols.get(symbol)
+                if symbol_info is None:
+                    log.debug("Symbol does not exist.")
+                    return None
+            else:
+                log.debug("Symbol does not exist.")
+                return None
+
         self.bot.stats.incr(f"doc_fetches.{symbol_info.package}")
 
         with self.symbol_get_event:
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