add persistent view in on_ready to avoid loop issues

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/examples/views/persistent.py b/examples/views/persistent.py
index 140a7869..71747667 100644
--- a/examples/views/persistent.py
+++ b/examples/views/persistent.py
@@ -2,15 +2,6 @@ from discord.ext import commands
 import discord
 
 
-class PersistentViewBot(commands.Bot):
-    def __init__(self):
-        super().__init__(command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned_or('$'))
-
-    async def on_ready(self):
-        print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})')
-        print('------')
-
-
 # Define a simple View that persists between bot restarts
 # In order a view to persist between restarts it needs to meet the following conditions:
 # 1) The timeout of the View has to be set to None
@@ -36,14 +27,26 @@ class PersistentView(discord.ui.View):
         await interaction.response.send_message('This is grey.', ephemeral=True)
 
 
-bot = PersistentViewBot()
+class PersistentViewBot(commands.Bot):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__(command_prefix=commands.when_mentioned_or('$'))
+        self.persistent_views_added = False
+
+    async def on_ready(self):
+        if not self.persistent_views_added:
+            # Register the persistent view for listening here.
+            # Note that this does not send the view to any message.
+            # In order to do this you need to first send a message with the View, which is shown below.
+            # If you have the message_id you can also pass it as a keyword argument, but for this example
+            # we don't have one.
+            self.add_view(PersistentView())
+            self.persistent_views_added = True
 
-# Register the persistent view for listening
-# Note that this does not send the view to any message.
-# In order to do this you need to first send a message with the View, which is shown below.
-# If you have the message_id you can also pass it as a keyword argument, but for this example
-# we don't have one.
-bot.add_view(PersistentView())
+        print(f'Logged in as {self.user} (ID: {self.user.id})')
+        print('------')
+
+
+bot = PersistentViewBot()
 
 
 @bot.command()