Telethon/readthedocs/concepts/strings.rst
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String-based Debugging
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Debugging is *really* important. Telegram's API is really big and there
is a lot of things that you should know. Such as, what attributes or fields
does a result have? Well, the easiest thing to do is printing it:
.. code-block:: python
user = client.get_entity('Lonami')
print(user)
That will show a huge **string** similar to the following:
.. code-block:: python
User(id=10885151, is_self=False, contact=False, mutual_contact=False, deleted=False, bot=False, bot_chat_history=False, bot_nochats=False, verified=False, restricted=False, min=False, bot_inline_geo=False, access_hash=123456789012345678, first_name='Lonami', last_name=None, username='Lonami', phone=None, photo=UserProfilePhoto(photo_id=123456789012345678, photo_small=FileLocation(dc_id=4, volume_id=1234567890, local_id=1234567890, secret=123456789012345678), photo_big=FileLocation(dc_id=4, volume_id=1234567890, local_id=1234567890, secret=123456789012345678)), status=UserStatusOffline(was_online=datetime.datetime(2018, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)), bot_info_version=None, restriction_reason=None, bot_inline_placeholder=None, lang_code=None)
That's a lot of text. But as you can see, all the properties are there.
So if you want the username you **don't use regex** or anything like
splitting ``str(user)`` to get what you want. You just access the
attribute you need:
.. code-block:: python
username = user.username
Can we get better than the shown string, though? Yes!
.. code-block:: python
print(user.stringify())
Will show a much better:
.. code-block:: python
User(
id=10885151,
is_self=False,
contact=False,
mutual_contact=False,
deleted=False,
bot=False,
bot_chat_history=False,
bot_nochats=False,
verified=False,
restricted=False,
min=False,
bot_inline_geo=False,
access_hash=123456789012345678,
first_name='Lonami',
last_name=None,
username='Lonami',
phone=None,
photo=UserProfilePhoto(
photo_id=123456789012345678,
photo_small=FileLocation(
dc_id=4,
volume_id=123456789,
local_id=123456789,
secret=-123456789012345678
),
photo_big=FileLocation(
dc_id=4,
volume_id=123456789,
local_id=123456789,
secret=123456789012345678
)
),
status=UserStatusOffline(
was_online=datetime.datetime(2018, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
),
bot_info_version=None,
restriction_reason=None,
bot_inline_placeholder=None,
lang_code=None
)
Now it's easy to see how we could get, for example,
the ``was_online`` time. It's inside ``status``:
.. code-block:: python
online_at = user.status.was_online
You don't need to print everything to see what all the possible values
can be. You can just search in http://lonamiwebs.github.io/Telethon/.
Remember that you can use Python's `isinstance
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#isinstance>`_
to check the type of something. For example:
.. code-block:: python
from telethon import types
if isinstance(user.status, types.UserStatusOffline):
print(user.status.was_online)