Posts can't be done outside of a handler?

[ZacSweers]

Nothing happens with the following code snippet:

from butterfield import Bot

bot = Bot('not-a-real-key')
bot.post("some-channel-id", 'Hi, channel!')

And if I try to "run" the bot first, it blocks on the run call:

import butterfield
from butterfield import Bot

bot = Bot('not-a-real-key')
butterfield.run(bot) # Never gets past here
bot.post("some-channel-id", 'Hi, channel!')

Posts only work from a handler, but that seems rather limiting. Am I missing something?

[ZacSweers]

I suppose a hacky way around it would be to just call bot.slack.**, but I feel like there should be a more API for exposing this if so

[jcarbaugh]

@hzsweers I'm going to have to take a closer look at this tomorrow. Butterfield is still very much under development so the README may not completely reflect the current state of things. We have a branch that is about to be merged that changes a lot of core stuff and removes bot.slack, so that's probably not a viable workaround.

We use bot.post with the Sunlight bot, but only within handlers. I'll have to make sure it's still possible to use that method elsewhere.

[ZacSweers]

Good to know, thanks for looking into it! I probably misinterpreted the README, and was under the impression it was implying you could call post without run